Gloria Cook

1947. Widow Dorrie Resterick continually finds herself confidante to others' troubles. Once she even found a scrap of evidence in a dreadful local crime - the double murder of two villagers. The police decided the scrap of paper Dorrie brought to them solved the case but Dorrie was never sure and wonders if someone is keeping secrets.

In the small mining village of Meryen, a dark secret lurks. Amy Lewarne finds her life changed forever when she finds her brother, Toby, dead. And troubles follow when Titus Kivell, the head of a powerful yet belligerent family, puts his son Sol in Toby's place. Despite his wild and formidable nature, Amy is inexplicably drawn to Sol, as he is to h