In this dramatic historical novel, a sequel to author Joyce Dorsey Ostlund's Love's Gift,17 year-old Annie faces a shocking and stark future when her father sells the family farm and leaves Annie and her mother to work as servants for the new owner and his son. Annie's life becomes miserable, especially due to the sexual advances of her bosses, but she finds solace in friendship with other workers on the farm, and at the local church. When she continues to encounter abuse, the priest helps Annie move to the city, and then to London. Five years later, Annie returns to the farm and finds it has been left to her. After falling in love with the grandson of people she worked with in the past, Annie finds a letter from her mother, now deceased, which holds a great mystery. Anne sets out on a quest which takes her out of the country, once again, in order to uncover the truth of the past. Can she and her new love conquer the obstacles that threaten to keep them apart? Will Annie be able to keep the farm and live out her dreams?