"Wounds of the heart take the longest to heal."

When solicitor s clerk George Johnson moves into a rented London room in the winter of 1920, it s with a secret goal: to find out if his fellow lodger, Matthew Connaught, is the wartime traitor who cost George s adored older brother his life.

Yet as he gets to know Matthew an irrepressibly cheerful ad man whose missing arm hasn t dimmed his smile George begins to lose sight of his mission.

As Matthew s advances become ever harder to resist, George tries to convince himself his brother s death was just the luck of the draw, and to forget he s hiding a secret of his own. His true identity and an act of conscience that shamed his family.

But as their mutual attraction grows, so does George s desperation to know the truth about what happened that day in Ypres. If only to prove Matthew innocent even if it means losing the man he s come to love.