When Stella Swift is discovered holding a shard of broken glass near her newborn baby fears that she might harm William result in her being taken to Catcombe - the local asylum. Turning to his kind-hearted sister-in-law Grace for help taking care of his other three children whilst he keeps working at the mine seems like the simplest solution for her husband Tom - if only there wasn't the shared history between them...At first Catcombe seems to offer the respite Stella needs - until one day she becomes convinced that the baby the nurses have given to her is not William. Is Stella losing her mind? Or will a mother always know her own child?

Part of the The Ten Houses Saga series.