Abstract: The second volume of the heart-warming Gibson family saga. In 1845 Annie Gibson can finally leave Salem Street. Her dreams of opening an elegant dressmaking salon in Bilsden, a Lancashire mill town, have come true. She is going to take her father and his second family with her, away from poverty, away from the Rows. But Annie has not left trouble behind. Someone is trying to undermine her business and her family have their own ideas about lives. Several men are persistently trying to win favour with Annie - including Frederick Hallam, the mill owner, and Daniel O'Connor, her childhood friend. But she becomes increasingly confused about her feelings. Is she really in love? And can she risk trusting any man again?