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 O'Neil is seduced by her boss's son. She becomes pregnant but is too afraid to tell him. Her brother, a 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 Lance recovers he proposes, but Cherry is harbouring a scandalous secret. Will their love survive the admission . . .?