What is this book about = *Anna Thornton leads a privileged life, but she's not content. When the dashing Matt Cowan sweeps her off her feet, she thinks her boring existence has changed for the better, only all is not as it seems. Betrayed and faced with family secrets, Anna flees her home. Taking her trusted maid with her, she begins a new life, which is filled with events that will test her strength and self belief. However, fate sends a man to heal her heart, but will she trust herself to another again? Will the past recede enough for her to see a brighter future? Authors Note: This isn't a romance, it's a family drama/saga, but it has romantic elements. The heroine, Anna, is a wealthy man's daughter who is bored with her life. She meets and falls in love with an adventurer, Matt Cowan, who although loves her, lies and leaves her. Once he has gone she finds she is pregnant. Anna's mother is slowly going mad and hates Anna because Anne was a product of a liaison. The mother finds out that Anna is with child. She tells her to leave the house but before Anna goes, her mother tells her that her Papa is not really her Papa, but in fact his brother is her real father. Heartbroken Anna flees her home with her trusted maid. She is determined to make a new life and be independent. She buys a run-down farm in Yorkshire. An Irishman, O'Mara comes along looking for work. Anna reluctantly hires him, but she's wary of men and hates to find herself attracted to him, a penniless labourer, so she fights her feelings. Her child is born and she lies to O'Mara telling him she was married. O'Mara tells Anna that his father is actually a wealthy man in Ireland, and she feels as betrayed he kept that fromher. However she has also kept the truth about herself from him too. She stops fighting her attraction to Brenton and realises he is offering a true love that will fulfil her. Suddenly, Matt Cown returns to see her and his child, but he is fatally ill. He dies at Anna's home and brenton is terrified that Anna will be affected by Matt's return and death. However, Anna knows that Matt's passing finally closes that period of her life and that brenton offers her a bright loving future