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A brand new heart-warming and atmospheric saga fiction series from Jean Fullerton, charting the loves, jobs and heartaches of three women who move into a rectory in Stepney, East London during WW2. East London, 1940. At the outbreak of war, hopeless romantic Prue Carmichael and her sister must leave their rural cottage when their father is posted to a church in Stepney. To Prue, the blitz-ravaged streets of London seem an unlikely place for love to bloom - until a chance encounter throws engineer Jack Quinn into her path. But as their connection deepens, his troubled past begins to emerge, and Prue realises Jack has secrets to hide . . . Luckily, in between starting work at a railway yard and helping her mother house Jewish refugees in the parish, Prue manages to keep her mind off love and on the wartime effort. However, Jack isn't the only man who's fallen for Prue - and when he is billed into the secret army, an unexpected suitor offers a fresh distraction. As air raid sirens sound and the Battle of Britain rages overhead, Prue Carmichael must face some of the greatest horrors of her young life. Meanwhile, she is waging her own battle - the fight between her heart and head...