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 besotted by the son of her wealthy boss, and when she is seduced by him she imagines herself truly in love. The feelings take a sharp knock when she thinks she may be pregnant and 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. Demanding money to avoid a family scandal, the two men fight and Lance is put in hospital. When he recovers he proposes, but soon Cherry has to admit that she's harbouring a scandalous secret. Will their love ever survive such an admission?
- ISBN10 072786758X
- ISBN13 9780727867582
- Publish Date 3 February 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English