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Verity, motivated by loyalty and compassion, helps her pregnant friend adjust to her late husband’s family home in the English countryside after her sudden widowhood in the Middle East. As the woman settles into the new environment, uncertainty grows over who among the house’s occupants can be trusted and who may be an adversary.
The narrative explores the tensions of integrating into a new family setting while coping with loss and new motherhood, set against the backdrop of rural England.
First publish date: 1990
Genre: Romance/Contemporary Romance
Authors: Sally Wentworth
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