581pp. Kit Chapman is the beautiful daughter of a rich Lancashire mill-owner; a man ruthless in his exploitation of his workpeople. She is to inherit the business - but only if she can prove herself as hard and determined as he.Kit and Joss, two people from very different, hostile worlds, meet by chance up on the moors they both love. It is the start of a friendship that turns into a wild love that has to struggle for fulfilment through times of terrible distress, of violence and passion.