This was set in the year 1838. In the poor copper-mining village of Meryen, carpenter's daughter Amy Lewarne finds her life changed for ever the day she searches for her missing brother, Toby, and finds him dead. And troubles follow when Titus Kivell, head of a belligerent and reclusive family, feeling it time to break out into the swiftly expanding world of the new Victorian era, puts his wild son Sol in Toby's place. Amy and Sol are drawn to each other, but fate seems to conspire to deny them lasting happiness. Heiress Tara Julyan is forced by the cruel, autocratic squire Darius Nankervis to marry his son Joshua; and although Joshua is kind, he guards a secret that would destroy him and perhaps Tara too. And for poverty-stricken Sarah Hichens, who is struggling to support her crippled mother and young siblings, tragic times lay ahead when her beauty attracts Titus Kivell.
- ISBN10 0727875574
- ISBN13 9780727875570
- Publish Date 4 December 2006 (first published 25 November 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Severn House Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 368
- Language English