Publisher's Synopsis
It is 1913, and the approach of Christmas fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her father Arthur's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops. There are dark secrets in Arthur's past, and these come tragically to light when Agnes's younger sister Jessie becomes pregnant by one of the notorious Felton brothers. Meanwhile, Agnes has a secret of her own: an attachment to Charles Farrier, son of a local landowner, who outrages his own family by proposing marriage. But Charles is not the only man who will shape Agnes's future. His brother Reginald makes no secret of his admiration for her. She could not have foreseen how significant a part he was to play in her destiny...
