ROSIE

*** A UK SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BEST-SELLER ***

How long can you conceal the past before it comes back to haunt you?

Rosie Parker is only a child when her mother dies during the war. Left to the less-than-tender mercies of her father Cole and her brutish step-brothers, she sees the arrival of housekeeper Heather Farley as her salvation.

But when several years later, Heather mysteriously leaves the Parkers, abandoning her small son, the terrible truth about Heather's disappearance eventually comes to light and Rosie is compelled to leave the farm to make her own way in the world. And if that means being exposed as the daughter of a murderer, that's a risk she'll have to take ...

Rosi is the compelling story of how love and tenderness can grow, like wild roses, out of the most barren ground.