Connie Bell, newly orphaned, is just twelve when she's taken on at the laundry in Sunderland's grim workhouse. Although she's little more than a child the events of her past have forged a driving determination to rise above her beginnings. But when she applies for a job as a nurse Connie's turned down: her mother was forced by poverty to work the streets and the Bell name is tainted. Bitterly hurt but undaunted, Connie's soon assistant housekeeper at the Grand Hotel and saving hard for her own business. When her path crosses Dan Stewart's, though, everything Connie's ever dreamed of is threatened. There's a dark and terrible history between the Bells and the Stewarts, and Dan's mother Edith will do anything to keep Dan and Connie apart.
- ISBN10 0747273693
- ISBN13 9780747273691
- Publish Date 6 April 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 November 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Headline Publishing Group
- Imprint Headline Book Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English