About the book: 2005 / Who will condemn young Emily Rowles for being forced to compromise with her own soul in order not to lose the roof over her head? The time for her bright dreams and hopes of meeting the blond, blue-eyed prince is over. Instead of the prince, she is now led to the altar by a huge, broad-shouldered Mr. Spilling, who never takes his loving gaze off her, whom she has known since childhood and certainly cannot imagine as her husband. But there is still a minute or two to think about it…