after a tragedy at her sons school a young ohio mother decides not to take any chances late one night she kidnaps her son from under her husbands nose and takes him to livehidden isolated and safein a cave on the rio grandeday by day moving closer to a startling love a terrible choice and the revelation of a devastating secret mention girl guides to any woman and the reaction will be strong they are all too often regarded merely in terms of biscuit sales and singsongs hardly anybody is aware of the massive impact that they had on gender equality and the outcome of world war ii this book explores how the guides work was crucial to britains victory