Rosamund Morley was the mainstay of her family, living a life of poverty deep in the wild fen country with her sister and alcoholic father She it was who ran for help the night her father set his bed alight after a drinking bout, a night that would change the course of her life for, fleeing through the woods, she met Michael Bradshaw, whom she called the 'fen tiger' When she knew more of Michael's past and what made him live in isolation, her first feelings of dislike turned to compassion and then to something deeper