<p>Love, hate, hope and pain powerfully intermingle in Diney Costeloe's moving sequel to The Children of the Siege. 1877, St. Etienne: Since the siege of the Communards in Paris six years earlier, Hélène is back in the safety of the family home. She watches as her eldest sister, Clarice, is set to marry the handsome young Lucas Barrineau, son of a wealthy, landowning family. Hélène is now 18 and a future as a wife and mother beckons. But can she overcome the abuse she suffered at the hands of un...