Here in one volume, for all lovers of Catherine Cookson's incomparable story-telling, is the complete trilogy featuring this most beguiling and most indomitable heroine. Born in hard times, in Tyneside, Tilly quickly learns to be a fighter. Faced with injustice and persecution, hated as well as desired for her beauty, loved and exploited by men, she rises from direst poverty to wealth and position in a saga that takes her to Texas and back again to her Tyneside roots and her final, greatest challenge. If she loses, everything she loves and values will be destroyed and her sufferings will have counted for nothing.