Paths of Peace — Kate Alexander

Young Anne Harwick returns home from Canada to post-war Britain recently widowed, and with her little daughter at her side. The return to her native village is bitter-sweet. Still mourning the death of her husband in Korea, Anne quickly settles down to making a living for herself and little Melanie in the changing village of Brinthorpe, where steelmaking is the only employment and the threat of nationalization pulls the workers and their masters in different directions. Although determined to build a career for herself, Anne soon finds herself torn between two men: Jeff Blackmore -- ambitious, magnetic, and strong-willed... and Jocelin Tyndall, son of the powerful Sir Fred Tyndall. In the end, she makes her choice -- and it is a choice that, in the years that follow, she finds herself reconsidering.