Dr Rodney Prince had never seen anyone more out of place in the Fifteen Street than Kate He knew she had suffered at the hands of both her bullying 'father' and of a smooth talking seducer who had left her with his child His own desire for a family had been frozen out by a wife with her eyes set on Harley Street rather than a Tyneside slum and the contrast between Stella and Kate exposed the emptiness of his heart Between Rodney, wealthy and unhappy and Kate, the bastard child of the slums, grew a love that opposed all the concepts of an Edwardian society