Bella's fiance is killed during the First World War. Rather than receiving sympathy in her grief, Bella is scorned at Philip's funeral by the family she had hoped to join. Even her own mother says no good ever came of a woman trying to marry someone so different...With no one to turn to, Bella throws herself into war work and moves away from home. But a lawyer tracks her down as she's been left something in Phillip's will. The inheritance brings new problems and even dangers. Can she find her way through it and make a new life?