Publisher's Synopsis
When Victoria Kilburn is sent by her family to stay with her beloved uncle in the country, she meets the enigmatic Marian Cotton. A relative newcomer to the village, Marian is an intelligent but secretive woman who lives by her own code and cares nothing for local opinion. She sets the sickly Victoria on the road to recovery, but when a whispering campaign against Marian in the village becomes ever more vicious, Victoria and her new friend Aaron Whitstable realise they must fight with all their strength to save the woman who has transformed Victoria's life.
