The story of a girl who loses all those whom she loves most dearly and is forced to leave the Yorkshire moorland which is her home. A girl who is abused by a rape which leaves her feeling she can never love again or be loved.
This story is one of three in a condensed novel
When young parlormaid Sarah Donnelly saved the child of the aristocratic Ingham clan from drowning, she received the most enticing yet perilous of rewards. This lovely, unspoiled creature was elevated far beyond her station, educated to be a lady of the sort she had only admired from afar, and given in wedlock to wealthy, handsome Samuel Rawson, a gentleman who otherwise would never have noticed her.Only later did Sarah deiscover the price she had to pay. For now her destiny and those of her sons and Kate, the beautiful foundling who came into their lives, were inextricably linked with the proud and willful Inghams, whose lusts were law, and who mocked all morality as they took what they wanted and destroyed what they would...