Marie Joseph 
Travelling Man 

When the exotic stranger walked into the loveless Clancy household, he brought a gift to innocent seventeen-year-old Annie that neither her five brothers, nor her brutal father, had ever given her … tenderness. And, like many before her, Annie pays the price for its sweetness.An outcast from her home and adrift in a harsh world, it would take a long time for Annie to trust a man again …Inspired by Marie Joseph’s storytelling magic, and set in the wild and sweeping Lancashire countryside, The Travelling Man is another of her gripping, page-turning sagas.