<p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">Set in 1870s Yorkshire it is the story of a young widow and her young stepson</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">When she is widowed, Caroline Flynn is forced to move to Stoops End,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">the worst slum in the Yorkshire, West Riding town of</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">Fesley. She gets work as a general help in Adam Cochrane's</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">pub where she, and her stepson Danny, encounter the intense hatred</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">of Lillian Roth, Adam's intended. Her plots and schemes are aimed at</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">bringing ruin and disgrace to the Flynns, and they both must struggle to</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">keep their good reputation. Lillian Roth blames Danny for stealing old Mrs Cochrane's jewelry</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">and causes such fear in him that he runs away and ends up in a remote farmhouse as a</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">prisoner of the murderous Noah Grisedale. Danny is present when Noah kills his wife in a fit of</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">rage, and he decides he must somehow escape. But can he find his way back to Fesley? Will</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">Caroline be able to prove her and Danny's innocence?</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">Throughout all these trials Caroline's landlord Ethan Barnes is a loyal friend and it is in Stoops</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(32, 33, 36, 1)">End where she discovers that she has learned to love the one man who stood by her.</span></p>