Publisher's Synopsis
"In the specialised world of women's popular fiction, Cookson has created her own territory" THE TIMES "I was just sixteen when I realised that priests don't know everything. You don't go to hell because you sin, but because you love..." Christine Winter was one of those girls blessed - or cursed - with that indefinable appeal that drives men to the brink of obsession. She lived high above the river in the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. Three men dominated her life. Her brother, Ronnie, and the devoted and loyal Sam both see Christine as joined to them by a thread of harmony; but Don, cruel, tormented and longing to possess her, was the needle through which the thread was drawn, and the point was sharp and deadly. Then one day a stranger comes to the river bank and Christine is to find herself changed beyond recall...
