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"There's no way to soften this, so I'll say it outright. I already have a wife." Conventional family life in 1920s rural Somerset had left Kate Sullivan totally unprepared for the shame of being jilted when Walter Radcliffe tells her he already has a wife. Desperate to escape, she accepts Walter's money and his sham wedding ring and flees to Bournemouth to try and forget. Then handsome Luke Halliday introduces himself and persuades her to come back with him to London. The promise of a new life seems the answer to all Kate's troubles - until Walter suddenly reappears, angry and violent...