Trynah's plans to marry Robinson Mann, a young farmer, are turned to ashes when she is brutally raped by Robinson's twin brother Redfern, in a fit of drunken jealousy. Enraged by the attack, Robinson kills his brother and is sentenced to hang in Lincoln prison. Trynah, heartbroken, discovers she is pregnant with Redfern's child and faces a terrible choice. A second chance for happiness comes to Trynah when she falls in love with the charismatic widower, Bladon, horse trainer and landlord of the bustling Pyewipe Inn—but six years later Trynah's life is suddenly turned upside down by an unexpected and earth-shattering occurrence which forces her to make the most difficult choice of her life. Muriel Arnold brings the sights, sounds and smells of nineteenth century Lincolnshire vividly to life in her first family saga of love, murder and revenge.