The pretty Arnold sisters have grown up on their fatherβs farm and yearn for something more out of life than drudgery and toil.
Ellen, loyal and honest, is her fatherβs favourite, but Georgina is impulsive and unreliable, and canβt please a father who has never shown her love.
The big house, Grindle Hall, offers them both a chance of betterment, but while Ellen follows the steady path, Georgina takes a darker road and soon, her actions will have fateful consequences for them all. Only Ellen can help them, but will a sisterβs love be enough?
Josephine Cox was born in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, Josephine met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at Cambridge University. She was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home, but she went into teaching β and started to write her first full-length novel. She won the βSuperwoman of Great Britainβ Award, for which her family had secretly entered her, at the same time as her novel was accepted for publication.