As the new millennium dawns, only 100-year-old Selma Bartley knows why one Yorkshire village refuses to honour its war dead. One summer’s day in 1913, a brush with tragedy irrevocably binds the fates of two families together. 1914, and West Sharland sends its men off to fight. Blacksmith’s daughter Selma is left to manage both the family business and her blossoming feelings for aristocrat Guy Cantrell. When Guy is wounded in battle, his identical twin Angus takes his place, unbeknownst to his brother.  But Angus’s actions in France result in catastrophe for the Bartley family, hundreds of miles away in West Sharland. Overnight the village turns against the Bartleys and Selma’s distraught parents urge her to make a new life for herself in America. Horrified by his brother’s actions, Guy ends up in Pennsylvania with a new identity and a sense of peace. But years later, as war looms again on the horizon, secrets are resurrected, reuniting Selma and Guy – and the names of the dead must be uttered once more…