The Distant Hours ($13) starts the way any great book should — a long-lost letter arriving in the post. From there, Edie Burchill finds herself journeying to great (and decaying) Milderhurst Castle, which houses the Blythe spinsters and is where her mother stayed during WWII. Inside the castle, Edie tries to unravel the secrets to her mother's past, but Milderhurst houses other secrets, and it's been waiting for someone to find them.