Publisher's Synopsis
Ella Gough is leading a comfortable - if unexciting - life at Burleigh House looking after her invalid husband and seven-year-old daughter Penny. Though determined to be a good wife and mother, part of her longs for something more - and then Daniel Hampton walks back into her life. At seventeen, Ella had loved him desperately, but he betrayed her. Now married and in debt, he needs work and applies for the post of assistant gardener at Burleigh House. Ella is drawn to her first love but she has her husband and daughter to consider. Then fate takes a hand...