Tragedy strikes on a bitter Christmas Eve, when a trusted employee’s house is mysteriously engulfed by flames. Ruby and her husband take matters into their own hands and welcome sixteen-year-old Anna, orphaned by the fire, into their home. But Anna's younger brother is sent by the Church to Canada. Can these two children ever be reunited?
Sheila Riley wrote four #1 bestselling novels under the pseudonym Annie Groves and is now writing the Reckoner's Row series under her own name. She has set it around the River Mersey and its docklands near to where she spent her early years. She still lives in Liverpool.