A spellbinding saga of family ties, heartbreak and rediscovered love Eveleen Hardcastle loves her life on Pear Tree Farm in Lincolnshire with her parents Mary and Walter and brother, Jimmy. Although the work is hard, the attentions of young Master Stephen Dunsmore - the son of the Hardcastles employer - provide Eveleen with a welcome distraction. Marys disapproval of the A spellbinding saga of family ties, heartbreak and rediscovered love Eveleen Hardcastle loves her life on Pear Tree Farm in Lincolnshire with her parents Mary and Walter and brother, Jimmy. Although the work is hard, the attentions of young Master Stephen Dunsmore - the son of the Hardcastles employer - provide Eveleen with a welcome distraction. Marys disapproval of the unsuitable match drives the young lovers to meet in secret. But it seems deception has a cruel price when Walter is found dead from a heart attack. The final blow comes with Stephens callous rejection of Eveleen, and as the Hardcastles are forced to leave Lincolnshire, she resolves never to allow love to enter her heart again - until a stunning discovery about Marys past causes her to reassess her mother and herself...