Publisher's Synopsis
Despite losing her mother at a young age, Sassy has grown up surrounded by love: although poor, she is happy. So Sassy is devastated when her father marries wealthy widow Elizabeth Bonner. Social climber Elizabeth despairs of a stepdaughter who is more at ease with servants than those above stairs. She is also deeply jealous of Sassy's growing beauty, as she begins to outshine Elizabeth's own daughter. Unwelcome in this unfamiliar world, Sassy often escapes to her old home and the company of her childhood friends, brothers Thomas and Jack Mallabone. But the trio's bond is threatened by the consequences of her blind adoration for wayward Thomas, much to the dismay of Jack, who has long worshipped Sassy in secret...
