Swansea, 1920, and Bethan Pryce is about to find her world turned upside down in an instant.

The death of her father catapults Beth into the heart of a feud between her mother, Esme, and Esme's sister, Mae, a feud that has been raging since Mae married Dan Henshaw, the love of Esme's life. Facing financial hardship, Esme is forced to send Beth to live with Mae and the overwhelmingly ambitious Dan, but in time Beth will discover that Dan is rather more than an uncle - in fact, he is her real father, something he refuses to acknowledge.

Fate deals Beth an impossible hand when she loses Esme to an early death in childbirth. Cast out by Mae and Dan and responsible for her new baby brother, Tommy, Beth must summon her reserves of strength to carve out a future for them both. But Beth's future is destructively and inextricably linked to her father's and Dan Henshaw is a powerful enemy by any measure, a bitter man who won't rest until his daughter faces ruin . . .