The first book in the dramatic new saga from your Weekend Times bestselling author

Holding the letter in trembling hands, Daisy’s future crumbled before her – the words engraved on her heart forever.

The village of Small Creek, the long winter of 1867

The first flakes of snow are falling when Daisy Marshall, secretly engaged to her master’s son, finds herself jilted on the altar.

Heartbroken, Daisy flees to the small village of Little Creek, nestled for the coastline of Essex. There she is warmly welcomed – but the community is poverty-stricken, suffering under a cruel Lord from the manor. So when cholera strikes, the villagers are really in dire straits.

Determined to greatly help, Daisy makes new friends in earnest doctor Nicholas and dashing smuggler Jay – but also dangerous brand-new enemies, who threaten to ruin everything she’s constructed. Can Daisy save the village and find happiness in time for Christmas?