When Annie Day at number four, Fairley Terrace, loses her beloved husband in a tragic mining disaster, she cannot afford the luxury of grief. For now she must find a way to support herself and her two young daughters, Kitty and Lucy, and marriage to widower Algernon Pierce seems to be the answer to Annie’s prayers.

For a time, all is well. But beneath her new husband’s respectable veneer, lies a darkness which deepens as the years roll by. Annie begins to fear for her daughters’ futures, particularly vibrant, headstrong Lucy, whose defiance of Algernon alters the course of their lives for ever…

Don’t miss the rest of the compelling, heartwarming sagas of the Families of Fairley Terrace, which began with Maggie’s story in ALL THE DARK SECRETS, as well as the short story THE BIRTHDAY SUPRISE in the saga collection A MOTHER’S JOY.