The war is over, but Emmas battles continue at home

Emma Reece is slowly adjusting to her husbands return from the war, even though his appalling injuries mean their marriage is in name only.

But then tragedy strikes, and Emma finds she cannot turn to Jack Harvey, her long-standing friend and one-time lover for while he still loves her, he is now a married man

The final instalment in the Emma trilogy, from Rosie Clarke, the author ofThe Downstairs Maid

(Note: previously published asThe Hearts that Holdby Linda Sole)

Rosie Clarke was born in Swindon. Her family moved to Cambridgeshire when she was nine, but she left at at the age of fifteen to work as a hairdresser in her father's business. She was married at eighteen and ran her own hairdressing business for some years.

Rosie loves to write and has penned over one hundred novels under different pseudonyms. She writes about the beauty of nature and sometimes puts a little into her books, though they are mostly about love and romance.