The Taggarts and the Rowans had been friends for thirty years. Their children had grown up together, sharing the worries and hardships of life in a Durham mining village.When Ann Rowan and David Taggart decided to marry, everyone was delighted... exept for Maggie Rowan. She was consumed with jealously at her sister's good fortune, for she was a plain, thin soured young woman, completely lacking in softness or warmth.But beneath Maggie's forbidding exterior, she was consumed with a desire to love and be loved...