An intriguing story of one girl's rise from poverty in the late 19th century and her enduring love for the son of a wealthy land owner. With a determination to better her life, Anna encounters gossip, blackmail, intrigue, deception and murder along her path towards a better future. The cruel and heartless Nigel Tremayne has little knowledge that she is the aunt of his only daughter, whose mother he plotted to kill soon after her birth. Anna is determined to expose the mystery surrounding her sister's death, but Nigel suspects who she truly is. He blackmails her into agreeing to become his wife so that she cannot reveal his deadly secret. With a cruel streak and veiled threats, he causes her to live in fear for her own life and that of her niece, Annabelle, if she goes against him. Faced with no option she agrees to become his wife, but it is his brother whom she truly loves. With twists and turns, more than one revelation leads her to the happiness she has longed for since she was a child, growing up in squalor on the bleak Devonshire moors.