When war is declared Rosie Mitchell reluctantly returns from London to the Somerset mining town of Hillsbridge to be with her widowed mother. She had fled to the city some years earlier to escape the heartache and shame of a disastrous end to her relationship with the man she still loves. Now she will once more be brought face to face with him and with her rival and childhood friend Anne Hastings. Back in her hometown there is no avoiding the attentions of Julian Edgell the charming doctor who had broken her heart. But another man too comes into her life. A man she finds very attractive but who will disclose nothing about himself. Can she trust either of them? Or will her heart be broken all over again?