Like a Diamond

"When the servants at 2 Alma Terrace, Falmouth, line up to greet the de Vivians, their new masters and mistresses in the straitlaced Cornwall of 1910, bows and curtseys are in order. However, young Peter de Vivian is so instantly smitten with the grace and beauty of Gemme Penhallow, the upper housemaid, that he forgets himself and does an unspeakably shocking thing--he shakes her hand! But secret events in Gemma's recent past make her especially wary of all young masters, even though she is as attracted to Peter as he is to her. If he is to win her trust as well as her love, he must surmount two equally tough obstacles--the one placed in their way by rules of class, and the personal one, about which Gemma refuses to talk. Even when it seems that a happy future is possible, society and the older generation hasv a trick or two up their sleeves that could change the course of Gemma and Peter's lives"--Inside cover.