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In a village near the Welsh marches in 1820s England, outward appearances and behavior are important. Mary Burnley refuses to conform.A young woman, widowed and shunned by her village.A clergyman, new to his parish and congregation.An unknown, unforgivable past.St. Edmund Wood, a refuge.In Regency England, Mary Burnley returns to her home after eighteen months of marriage; she is scorned and shunned by the village, and her mother. When Mary meets the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Godwin, the new curate for the village church, life becomes a little less bleak. It is in the mysterious and beautiful St. Edmund Wood where a dark, unknown past is revealed, and it is in St. Edmund Wood where her new-found happiness will either be made, or broken.