Kate thinks all her wishes have come true when she opens her own little craft shop in the idyllic harbour town of St Felix.
...Living in poverty in the Kentish marshes, young Kate dreams of a life of abundance & riches in the castle that towers over her village. So when the beautiful Lady Evelyn descends, requesting Kate to be her personal maidservant at the castle, it looks like the first stage of a dream come true. But there are blackhearted men to contend with, evil in thought & deed, & they have a sophistication well beyond that of anyone Kate has encountered before. & when her one true love, Tom the fisherman, returns from sailing the seven seas, it is to a very different Kate from the one he left behind.