Hidden Treasures

After the death of his mother, Frances, Harry is surprised by the arrival of his lost love Tabitha, brought to his doorstep by a letter from Frances begging Tabitha and Harry to find the Klinkosch box secreted among the hoarder’s contents of her Cotswold cottage. To acquire the funds to keep the cottage as his home, Harry and Tabitha must find the valuable silver box. Jumping between the 1980s (when teenage Frances was involved with a mysterious older man in France while visiting family during school holidays) and the present (as Harry and Tabitha unearth clues to Frances’s past and the Klinkosch box), the story lines come together in a series of surprising revelations. Harry and Tabitha must discover the treasure and their true feelings before they lose everything, including each other. Adams (Between the Lies) manages to pack a great deal—teen pregnancy, bipolar disorder, hoarding, art theft, domestic abuse—into one tightly plotted, entertaining novel.