Wounds of the heart are the hardest to heal. Solicitor’s clerk George Johnson has a secret goal when he moves into a London boarding house in the winter of 1920: to find out if his fellow lodger, Matthew Connaught, was the wartime traitor who cost George’s adored older brother Hugh his life. Yet the more he gets to know his quarry, the more George loses sight of his mission -- and his heart. Blessed with boyish good looks and charm in abundance, ad man Matthew is irrepressibly cheerful despite having lost an arm in the Great War -- and soon makes plain his attraction to George. As George’s feelings for Matthew grow, so does his desperation to know the truth about what happened that day in Ypres. Even if bringing all their secrets to light means he’ll lose the man he’s come to love.

To Love a Traitor

The offices of Forrester & Lindley were in a narrow, old-fashioned street not far from Lincoln’s Inn. As Roger hesitated by the door, a brace of bewigged barristers, pink-ribboned court briefs in hand, strode importantly past, no doubt on their way to the Law Courts on the Strand. Their gowns fluttered in their wake like the wings of a couple of great bats. One of them sported a particularly fine military moustache, which must have looked very dashing when he was in his khakis but was an unfortunate incongruity with his present attire.


Roger supposed he would become quite familiar with such sights, working here—or at least, he would if he could ever manage to set foot in the place. Time to stop procrastinating. Squaring his shoulders, Roger pushed open the door.


Chapter 8