Slapton Sands

They were just like the beaches at Normandy, Slapton Sand. That''s why they trained them there - an army of invasion secluded in sleepy south Devon. But fifteen hundred soldiers perished at Slapton Sands, and no one seems to want to know why.

Thirty-two years later, in the long hot summer of ''76, Alice Bourne, an American Student, arrives determined to discover the true story of their tragic sacrifice.

But her presence is unwelcome. Disturbing incidents occur. Alice believes she''s being haunted, targeted by a malevolent individual with his own dark reasons for preventing her from finding out what really happened.

A poignant love story and a chilling tale of suspense, Francis Cottam''s mesmerizing novel peels back the layers of both past and present to examine the harrowing detail of a tragic wartime mystery.