The stunning final book in the classic Emma Grady trilogy by Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox.
Twenty-two years ago Emma Grady was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to transportation to Australia. Just before her departure she bore and lost her baby daughter - conceived during a passionate affair with Marlow Tanner. It is now 1885, and Emma has returned to Blackburn. Reunited with Marlow, she has a loving family, yet she is still haunted by the past, unable to forget how her uncle Caleb Crowther ignored her desperate plea to save her and her tragic first-born.
Crowther curses his niece´s return and also hounds Molly, Emma´s lost daughter. Molly and her children run away and, contending with hunger, exhaustion and the unwelcome attentions of the men who are drawn to Molly´s dark beauty, their life at times is almost unbearable. But Molly has inherited Emma´s indomitable spirit...