A story of romance and the search for belonging set amongst the cobbled streets, cotton mills and poverty of English village life in 1859. To the outside world Clara is a strong and fearless woman, hardened by her cruel childhood she hides behind a wall of defiance yet beneath the exterior lies a fragile and troubled soul.

Finally free of the obligation to care for her spiteful drunk of a father, Clara decides to open a school in her home village of Bellmont. In her search for benefactors she meets two men in the local mill town; the pleasant and genial Dr Worthing and the arrogant Mr Roscoe. She is pursued by both men as she navigates the trials and tribulations of a working class existence with all the joy and tragedy life brings. As Clara learns of love she settles on her future before a terrible truth is revealed, a truth so unbearable it tears her world apart and the love and belonging she so desperately wants seems lost forever...
(A complete standalone novel).
Previously published as The Pained Heart: A Victorian Tale of Love & Deceit by Popovic`, Gill (AUTHOR).

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