A Gentle, Cornish Romance.

After breaking off an abusive relationship with her fiance, Londoner Tessa Morgan hoped for a fresh start in Cornwall: a new job, a new home, a new place. Her employer, the elderly Emmeline Dolan, seemed an eccentric and kind woman who made Tessa feel immediately at home. She thought she'd fallen on her feet and could put the unhappiness of the past behind her.

But Tessa had reckoned without the fates and Emmeline's immediate family, with one of whom she had already had an unpleasant clash.

It was unfortunate that her new beginning should get off to such a bad start...