A Crimson Dawn
by Janet MacLeod Trotter
Young Emmie is rescued from a Gateshead slum by radical mining family the MacRaes. Blossoming into a spirited woman Emmie is wooed by handsome Tom, learning too late he is violent. As war engulfs Europe in 1914, Tom enlists but Emmie supports conscientious objector Rab MacRae and soon they are in love. Then he is arrested and Emmie outcast...