When Elin is seduced and left pregnant by her wealthy employer, she agrees to marry the butler. Despite poverty and abuse, her daughter Laura forges a successful career, but it takes a twist of fate to reunite Laura with her wealthy relatives and to enable her and her mother to at last find love.

Anne Baker's compelling new novel brings a delightful cast of characters face to face with the trials and tribulations of life - but the family will survive it all.

A touching Merseyside saga from bestselling author Anne Baker

A family saga set in Liverpool during the Second World War. As lives are lost and hearts are broken, the Rushton children struggle to survive.

When all seems lost, will her mother's legacy keep her safe? Praise for Anne Baker's Merseyside sagas: 'A stirring tale of romance and passion, poverty and ambition' Liverpool Echo Aimee Kendrick is no stranger to heartache. Having lost her father during the Great War and her mother, a famous French impressionist painter, in a tragic accident, Aimee is brought up by her troubled grandparents on the banks of the river Mersey. She works hard at her art lessons and is encouraged to believe she has inherited her mother's gift, but it is her childhood friend and fellow student Frankie...