The latest novel in the Badgers Brook series - Meriel Evans has worked for her father's estate agency since leaving school. She is happy, but knows it is time for her to follow her own path. She finds a new position but quickly realizes the owner, George Dexter, and her father dislike each other intensely. Neither will explain why. Their quarrel is so bitter it results in a secret from the past being revealed; one which threatens to destroy Meriel's family.

A gifted young woman must make her own way in the world . . . Ancret has worked hard to be what she is: a skilled designer of hats, with a career that looks set to rise if she stays dedicated ? even if her mummy?s-boy boyfriend Jonathan has other thoughts. And Ancret herself has other worries. Who was her real father? Why won?t her beloved mother Loraine talk about him? Jonathan wants to marry Ancret. Ancret keeps saying her career comes first, but after his unhappy childhood, what he really wants is a wife who puts work aside for him. So when Loraine secretly manages to raise the funds to set Ancret up in business, he's far from pleased. What neither Ancret nor Jonathan know is that Loraine had to go to Ancret's father for the money . . . Both Jonathan and Ancret need to come to terms with their pasts. Whether or not they can do it together is another matter.