When the Great War ends, Ellen Dawson has mixed feelings. She loved her war work in London. Now she is forced by her mother's illness to return to Lancashire & accept her old position as housemaid. Her employer is as vicious as ever & her violent stepfather is determined to marry her off to a man she hates. However, she has an ally. Seth Talbot, the new local policeman, is determined to bring order to a town where the law has been flouted for years. Little do either of them realise how corrupt so-called respectable people can be