Hannah Delaney is a young woman with a secret. It is not one that she can share with her large family back home in Irel&, & especially not with her dying sister. Hannah moved to England to build a better life, where she met & fell in love with a soldier. They intended to marry on his next leave, but then D-Day arrived & he didn't come back. Devastated, Hannah is left alone & penniless. Grimly picking up the pieces of her life, Hannah goes to work in a Birmingham guesthouse. Common sense tells her to agree to marry sensible Arthur Bradley, but he too has a secret. & their secrets are destined to have unimaginable consequences.