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 her things from her? Families supported and aided each other didn’t they? Especially on a Yorkshire Dales farm, in 1887 where life was tough enough without a falling out in the family. But niece Agnes knew something for she’d found the letter. Time for Tizzie to remove those rose tinted spectacles and really see what her brother, Jack, his wife, Maggie, and their children had been up to. Here she'd been, working herself down to skin and bones as a dairymaid for them, but what had they really done to her? She dreaded finding out, but she must, or Agnes would suffer the same spinster fate and she wanted to be a school teacher, Together they uncover Jack and Maggie's treachery and Tizzie, robbed of all she wanted in life, determines to set Agnes free.