Knocknashee, County Kerry, Ireland

1941

For twenty-one-year-old Grace Fitzgerald, life has been fraught with difficulties. Orphaned as a child and later struck down by polio, she then endured years of cold indifference at the hands of her sister Agnes. Now, with Agnes finally gone, Grace has found peace surrounded by friends in her home village of Knocknashee and in her ongoing friendship with the American journalist Richard Lewis.

But just as Grace begins to enjoy her hard-won freedom, fate deals another crushing blow. A dark shadow falls over life, and most devastating of all, her dearest friend Tilly may be entangled in the sinister events unfolding around her. With Richard—her trusted confidant—an ocean away covering the relentless war, Grace feels she has nobody to confide in. As his letters grow increasingly distant, she wrestles with doubt: is she imagining the growing coldness between them, or is the war that threatens to tear the world apart determined to destroy her and Richard as well?

Sincerely Grace is the fourth book in the Knocknashee Series.