You just know when you start reading one of Annemarie’s books that you will be captivated, this was no exception.
After being orphaned Felicity (Fliss)Atkins was taken in by her lovely uncle Terry, the same can’t be said for her aunt Hilda who thinks Fliss is there to see to all her needs. The biggest downside is her cousin Gerald who bullies her, often using violence. Always in a way that the injuries/bruises can’t be seen by others. Fliss just keeps her head down, doing any job that keeps them off her back. Then one day she meets Oscar Nolan by chance, is this an opportunity for Fliss .
Her life is suddenly to be changed, but is it for the best! Wolves in sheep’s clothing!

It was lovely to have familiar characters through the book. I was reading wanting one thing to happen and then saying “oh, no”.
Read it in one day , couldn’t put it down. Favourite character was Fliss, she just cared for everyone, whether they deserved it or not. Least favourite was Gerald for bullying and Hilda for being selfish.
Saddest part was the knowledge that it was last in series.

I hadn’t read the first two books in the series, which would have helped to understand the relationship between the three women better. I did enjoy the clean story, although there was physical abuse depicted. The heroine was very smart and caring, but felt unloved except for her friends and her uncle. The hero was a surveyor - that is a job I hadn’t come across in a book before. They both have an attraction to each other but different outlooks on what their future might be. It takes almost loosing each other for them to come to a compromise. The author had good descriptions of a river flooding.