The Unbaited Trap Author:Catherine Marchant, Catherine Cookson John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was held apart from all the people and things about him by the tragedy of his past. Not until he met Cissie did he find -- for the first time -- that his loneliness eased a little. — Cissie was everything that Ann -- his wife -- was not. Cissie was warm, and compassionate, and ... more »generous. And she was quick to sense the needs of a desolate, unhappy man.
But Cissie was also a young widow, poor, and with a small son to support. And John Emmerson was one of the town's leading solicitors -- a figure under constant surveillance by the local dignitaries.« less