Jessie - Anna Jacobs

Jessie Burton is lively and intelligent - and she wants more than the respectable life in service her mother has long planned for her. Jessie tastes that freedom when she meets Jared Wilde, an ambitious young navvy newly arrived in Yorkshire. The attraction between them is overwhelming. He introduces her to the primitive, colourful shanty towns that spring up around the railway works. But in spite of the hardness of life there, she finds happiness with Jared. Until another navvy becomes determined to destroy their future together...