Mary Jenkins had dragged herself up from humble beginnings -- first to be overseer in the Canal Street laundry, then to run her own market stall in Sweyn's Eye. But constantly fate -- and the Sutton brothers -- knocked her down again. Dean Sutton was prepared to set her up in a shop of her own -- but only at his price -- while Brandon Sutton threatened to destroy her with a love neither of them could control. But Mary -- proud Mary -- was a fighter, determined to win whatever the odds, however great the sacrifice.