It's never easy to go back, especially when the memories you've been running from suddenly resurface.

When Annie returns to her home village after a long absence, she rediscovers the diary she kept the year she turned 16, the year that changed her life. We follow Annie as she navigates a blossoming love story with a handsome soldier and her growing affection for an evacuee child. With tender and amusing moments, this story--set in a small English village during World War II--explores love, resilience, and loss with a fresh new voice.

S.L. Roman is a pseudonym for Laura Meloni and Sarah Onions. With surnames of Meloni and Onions, they thought they sounded more like a vegetable market, so they came up with S.L. Roman (in homage to Laura's native city, Rome). Both have been teachers at the high school level.