About the book: 1999 / Young Charity Livesey gets married, but soon, faced with her husband’s cruelty, she realizes that he was only interested in her money. Having squandered his wife's fortune, he dies in a car accident. Charity begins to make a living by growing flowers and medicinal herbs, and gradually achieves success in this. She lives completely alone, afraid to even think about a new marriage. It seems to her that all men are the same. But then Bert Saunders buys her former estate…