It was her letter. Dear Tizzie, it read so why had it been thrown away before she’d seen it? Her family wouldn’t do that to her, hide things. Families support and aid each other don’t they? Especially on a Yorkshire Dale farm, in 1887 where life was tough enough without a falling out in the family. But niece Agnes knows something. She found the letter. Perhaps it’s time for Tizzie to understand what her brother, Jack, his wife, Maggie, and their children are up to. It’s nowt good that’s for sure. Here she is working herself down to skin and bones as a dairymaid for them, but what have they really done to her? She dreads finding out but she must, or Agnes will suffer the same spinster fate. Sharp young Agnes, who longs to be a school teacher, helps Tizzie suspect, see and then uncover Jack and Maggie's treachery. Now Tizzie knows how they’ve robbed her of a life, she starts plotting to free Agnes. How she’ll manage it she doesn’t know but Tizzie is determined to set Agnes free.