Vera Lawson Series: The Road to Tarascon (Vera Lawson Series, #1) (ePub)

'What if you raised the lid of a piano stool in a bombed out house, and discovered a photograph of your mother with a German soldier… in Normandy?'
Straight from her strict convent upbringing in New South Wales, VERA LAWSON has a core need to find her mother, who fled a violent marriage in Australia and faked her own death.
Accepting an offer of employment with an aristocratic family in London as a tutor, two boxes of letters are discovered by accident in one of her employer's attics.
 Vera now knows the family are hiding the connection between her mother CAROLINE LAWSON and GUNTHER POLT, a Waffen SS Tank Commander, but needs to prove it.
Polt arrogant and wealthy more concerned about the survival of his vineyards than his involvement in the German war regime, agrees to help Caroline steal two valuable canvases as retribution for her disinheritance. An Art theft mystery and the Romance of a new man.
Meanwhile, Vera is sent over with the Army of Occupation as Charge Nurse with a British Medical Unit, and recommends the family's Chateau in Saint-Pois for an evacuation hospital to her Surgeon Commander. 
When a stray V2 rocket kills the entire Welmont household, Vera learns of her real relationship with the family.  With the help of TIMOTHY RANSTONE the family's solicitor, Vera comes face to face with a captured German in a strick Military POW camp above Utah Beach.
The officer denies knowing Caroline, but Vera holds on to her only piece of evidence- a torn black and white image.
After the war, a chance discovery of an old handbag, exposes Caroline's secret life.  Vera's journey to find her elusive mother leads her across the fields of Normandy, and into the heartland of the Rhine Valley and Switzerland.