Yorkshire Dales 1850As a terrible storm rages Annabelle Wallis is shocked to find a distressed young woman at her cottage door heavy with child Moments later a baby girl is born But by dawn the mother has vanished leaving behind the helpless child wrapped only in a silk peacock shawlWhen news spreads that Lady Eliza Hartley sister to wealthy estate owner John Hartley has been found dead Annabelle realises the terrible secret she has stumbled on Terrified shell be blamed for Elizas death Annabelle flees to the filthy slums of York where she plans to raise the precious orphan as her ownThe cobbled streets of Yorks slums are no place for a young woman like Annabelle or a Hartley babe and John Hartley is determined to bring them both home But Annabelle proves impossible to findAnnabelle cant hide forever from the wealthy Hartley family but can she ever give up the baby she lovesPraise for AnneMarie BrearPoignant powerful and searingly emotional AnneMarie Brear stands shoulder to shoulder with the finest works by some of the genres greatest writers such as Catherine Cookson Audrey Howard and Rosamunde Pilcher
