Barbara Hall, pretty, mischievous, and seventeen, has grown up wanting for nothing. But a long-buried family secret is about to be uncovered and threaten her happiness. Will it deny her the one man she truly loves?
And outside of the close-knit mining community of Hillsbridge, war once again looms on the horizon. Youngest of the Hall clan, fate is about to propel Barbara into maturity...
The third spell-binding novel in the Hillsbridge Sagas will appeal to fans of Rosie Goodwin and Maggie Hope.
‘Sensitive and exceptionally polished’ Manchester Evening News
The Hillsbridge Sagas1 The Black Mountains
2 The Emerald Valley
3 The Hills and the Valley
4 A Family Affair
Janet Tanner is the well-loved author of multi-generational sagas and historical Gothic novels.Drawing on her own background, Janet’s Hillsbridge Sagas are set in a small, working-class mining community in Somerset. Always a prolific writer, Janet had hundreds of short stories and serials published in various magazines worldwide before writing her first novel. She has been translated into many languages, including Russian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian and Hebrew. Janet also writes as Amelia Carr and Jennie Felton.