Beautiful Innocence

'A born storyteller' - BARBARA ERSKINE

'Storytelling skills and appeal of the late Catherine Cookson' - THE BOOKSELLER

London, 1900. Hester Stanmore watches in disbelief as the jury declares her attacker ‘not guilty’, and the courtroom erupts into chaos. The man in the dock is being congratulated as if he were a hero, but she has seen he madness in his eyes when he had attacked her and left her for dead.

It was only Hester’s strength that allowed her to survive. Hester was determined to bring him to justice, but what would happen now? As she endeavours to pick up the pieces of her life, Hester meets the mysterious Daniel Hansen, and perhaps she will find the happy ending she justly deserves …