Publisher: KokBoekencentrum
Can new happiness blossom in the village of Almsbrick when loyalty and honesty are put to the test?
England, 1883. When thirty-year-old chambermaid Daisy Wilkins is unexpectedly laid off, she is forced to apply to the popular Sophia Grant, who has already lost three chambermaids within a year. She hopes to finally be allowed to travel with her, so no one can think of her as a dull village girl anymore. Then her friend Emily, who also works for the Grant family, is accused of theft. Daisy believes in her innocence and sets out to find the truth. Soon she discovers that she cannot trust everyone in the mansion. To her horror, her childhood friend Ryan also returns, after he casually abandoned her ten years ago. He, too, wants to find the real thief. How can Daisy cooperate with him without breaking her heart again?
Journalist Ryan Henley doesn’t have a good word to say about the Grant family. After ten years of keeping a secret, he now wants to use his sharp pen to deal with them and exonerate his sister Emily. He hadn’t counted on a reunion with Daisy. How can he make her understand that he has had her best interests at heart all these years, that he wants her to be happy? Can something beautiful blossom between them despite the past?