Hardback : Litttle, Brown ISBN 0.316.85934.6
Paperback : Warner Books ISBN 0.7515.3221.5
Large Print : Magna ISBN 0.7505.1941.X
Talking Book : Magna Sound Story SS664

In Jim Brady, Susan Cummings has found a man who is perfect marriage material: tall, good-looking, decent and caring. But love never runs smooth, and in Belfast in the late 1950s it is as rough as it is possible to be. For Jim is a Catholic, and Susan knows that her Protestant parents will never accept such a union. However much their feelings blossom, Susan and Jim know that theirs is a relationship that is doomed from the start.

Even so, Jim decides that breaking up is the only way forward, Susan is heartbroken. And when your heart is broken, anything can happen. And it does in the form of Graham Robson, her sister's boyfriend. For a brief moment despair is replaced by desire. It is a single night that changes her life: when Susan discovers she is pregnant, she flees from her family's reaction for England, and the sanctuary of her Aunt Edith's home in Darlington.

Susan is determined that Graham must never know he is the father of her child; if she can stay away until the baby is born, then perhaps her sister's future happiness can be assured. And for a while, everything seems possible. Susan befriends Donald Murphy, whose romantic history is problematic as her own. But any possibility of love is thwarted by terrible news from home.

Susan returns to Belfast, where her father's disgust is tempered by the birth of her beautiful son William. But while Susan resists the pressure to reveal the identity of William's father, she is finding it more difficult to keep her suitors at bay. With Jim, Donald and Graham all in pursuit. Susan doesn't know how her future will play out. But she knows one thing all too well. She is playing with fire....