Publisher's Synopsis
When Mary's father, the miller, runs away with another woman and her mother dies soon after, Mary and her siblings are sent to the Foundling School for Girls to start a new life. The miller tracks them down and brings them to be a part of his new family. But the miller is desperate for a son, and when Mary's newest sibling turns out to be a girl, he begins to court a vulnerable and lonely young woman called Isabel. Isabel gives birth to a boy, but the rumours abound that the miller may not be the father of Isabel's child. Will Isabel escape with her child, or will the miller's wrath destroy everyone in his life, including his daughter...?
