Luke Hammond: handsome, rich, charismatic, cursed by private tragedy. Amy Atkinson: humble and kind with a good тАУ but wounded тАУ heart. When they meet by chance, a spark of love takes hold of their hearts.
But neither are sure that they can dare to love again. And what of Luke's public life, hidden from Amy? The owner of a large factory, he is a pillar of the community, married тАУ though in name only. Amy is torn between her head and her heart, but her sense of honour is paramount тАУ and when she discovers his true identity, she is thrown into even greater turmoil.
Then disaster strikes and the future looks troubled indeed ....
Josephine Cox was born in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, Josephine met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at Cambridge University. She was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home, but she went into teaching тАУ and started to write her first full-length novel. She won the тАШSuperwoman of Great BritainтАЩ Award, for which her family had secretly entered her, at the same time as her novel was accepted for publication.