From the ashes of the war can love blossom? Rhian Gray left her home in Sweyn’s Eye to make a life for herself in Yorkshire where she learnt the skills of spinning and weaving. She also learnt to love Mansel Jack a charismatic and ambitious mill-owner. When Rhian returns to Sweyn’s Eye it is to a town torn apart by anxiety and uncertainty by the devastation of the Great War a town whose worker’s lives are governed by fear. Amidst the anguish and dedication of the women who were left behind Rhian must decide where her own future lies - in respectable marriage to Heath Jenkins her former sweetheart - or in the arms of Mansel Jack.

Part of the Sweyn's Eye series.