Book description
In the mid-1850s, life for an orphan was grim, as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died suddenly on a journey to Northumberland, leaving her penniless and alone in the hands of a cruel baby farmer.
Somehow, Kirsten survived her terrible childhood — only to be sold, at the age of fourteen, to a travelling tinker — a vicious master who raped her and held her captive until the fateful day they were separated during a storm. Rescued from the flood by the Flynn family, she gave birth to a child as the waters raged about her — at the same time as Florence, mistress of the great house nearby, was told that her newborn son was dead.
The two women entered into a secret bargain…. an arrangement that was to change Kirsten’s fortune — and place her in the middle of a bitter feud between two families….
