Helena Coates

When Emma Robinson discovers she is carrying Paul Greenslade's child, he disappears rather than marry a common shop-girl. Forced by her tyrannical father to marry Richard Gillows, Emma learns quickly that a jealous husband is a violent one. How can Emma escape the ties that bind her, to build a life for herself and her child?

Emma is slowly adjusting to her husband’s return from the war, even though his appalling injuries mean their marriage is in name only. But when tragedy strikes, Emma finds she cannot turn to Jack Harvey, her long-standing friend and one-time lover – for while he still loves her, he is now a married man..

Newly married Emma thinks that life couldn’t be better. But her happiness is short-lived when within months, Jon’s plane is shot down over France and he is declared missing, presumed dead. When she makes a new friend in the American businessman Jack Harvey, she is faced with a difficult decision. Should she take a last chance at happiness?