Rowena Summers creates another absorbing and heart-warming story, filled with the magical characters her readers have come to expect - Bristol, 1924: kitchen maid Cherry ONeil is seduced by her bosss son and imagines herself truly in love. She becomes pregnant but is too afraid to tell him. Her brother, a rough, bare-knuckle fighter, thinks this is a perfect opportunity to blackmail her lover, Captain Lance Melchoir. The two men fight and Lance is injured. When he recovers he proposes, but Cherry is harbouring a scandalous secret. Will their love survive the admission . . .?