The Ties That Bind Author:Lyn Andrews Tessa O'Leary is the only daughter of a family of fatherless boys. When her mother dies she's her brothers' lifeline to survival. So for Tessa the privations of war are just another battle to be fought for a young woman who was born fighting... — Elizabeth Harrison is oppressed by her shopkeeper mother's snobbish expectations and ... more »it seems that the coming war could offer her an escape from her family's emotional ties - but at what cost?« less