Publisher's Synopsis
Brought up on her uncle's lowly tenant farm among the mixed farming and mining community of the wild Tavy Valley, young Elizabeth Thornton yearns to train in medicine, but for a woman in mid-Victorian England, her ambitions will be impossible to fulfil. Besides, her uncle has other plans for her, and even when she appears to have escaped his clutches, a vengeful obsession from another source brings the past back to haunt her. Even the man she comes to love holds a dark, terrible secret
