Times are changing: railways are being built across the land, bringing new freedom and possibilities. Jessie tastes that freedom when she meets an ambitious young navvy, newly arrived in Yorkshire. The attraction between them is overwhelming. And Jared Wilde is determined to make Jessie his wife.

The primitive, colourful shanty towns that spring up around the railway works are nothing like the safe world Jessie once knew. But in spite of the hardness of life there, she finds happiness with Jared. Until another navvy becomes determined to destroy their future together ...

Jessie is a vivid and compelling tale which will enchant and fascinate readers everywhere.

She wondered, with a stab of pure terror, whether Jared would think she'd changed her mind about marrying him? And what would her mother say? Would Mrs Cosleigh just tell her that Jessie had been sent to the Scottish house? And would Agnes believe them? As Jessie's thoughts whirled round inside her head, her spirits sank lower and lower.

The moon alternately shone into the narrow room where she was imprisoned, then disappeared behind the clouds, leaving her feeling as if she were choking in the stuffy blackness. Time crawled past, but although she felt tired, she had no desire to sleep.