Secrets at the Aviary Inn

She arrives in York with a boyfriend, a backpack, and a photograph her mother never explained.

Within twenty-four hours, the boyfriend's gone - and Sophie Groenveld is alone in a foreign country with no money, no passport, and nowhere to turn. What saves her is a stranger's kindness, a job offer with no questions asked, and an inn unlike anything she's ever seen.

The Aviary Inn is beautiful and faded, presided over by the quietly enigmatic Ava Roxtoby - a woman who tends her birds with tender...