Whispers on Water is a Short Read - approximately 2 hours or more - in The Yankee Years series. In a small community news travels like whispers across water on a still summer’s night. So how can one secret elude straining ears? May 1943: After helping to foil an espionage attempt and suspected sabotage at the nearby American flying-boat base, Ruth Corey plans to steer clear of fifth columnists. But when her friend, Home Guard Robbie Hetherington is injured during an IRA raid on a police station, she won’t let his attackers escape, especially since they have reclaimed a quantity of gelignite. She rallies her American sweetheart Frank Longo, and several friends to help her, but pursuing the terrorists won’t be easy and will challenge long held beliefs as she crosses the strict line dividing the province’s two religious communities. Can Ruth find the Republican terrorists, before they use the gelignite, and avoid religious tensions coming between her and her sweetheart? A tale for fans of Maggie Hope, Daisy Styles and Ellie Dean. The Yankee Years series: During the Second World War Northern Ireland hosted American, British and Canadian troops. County Fermanagh welcomed Air Force squadrons hunting U-boats and defending shipping convoys in the Atlantic Ocean and Army battalions training and preparing for deployment to Europe's Western Front. After the Allied troops arrived, life would never be the same again. The Yankee Years novels and Short Reads weave thrilling and romantic tales of the people and the era.