Publisher's Synopsis
Grace Ellis is the envy of her schoolmates. While they are struggling in rural poverty in Lancashire, her father owns a shop and her mother strives for respectability. Grace is raised to believe that she's something special, but after her mother's ruthless action the family disintegrates and Grace is reduced to the penury her parents worked so desperately to escape. An anonymous benefactor arranges to fund Grace's education, enabling her to build her own cosmetics empire, but it will take all her redoubtable character to triumph over scheming adversaries and opportunistic lovers and find a man to match her own courage.
