Author(s): Leah Fleming

General

The secrets in a woman's heart are deeper þan þe ocean⦠For May Smiþ, travelling wiþ her husband and baby girl Ellen, stepping foot on þe Titanic marks þe start of an incredible journey, one which is destined to take her from þe back streets of Bolton to þe land of opportunity: þe United States. But when þe 'unsinkable' Titanic hits an iceberg one cold dark night, May's dreams are instantly shattered. Jumping from þe sinking ship at þe last minute, May loses sight of JÅ and Ellen. Distraught, she is pulled into a lifeboat. Minutes later, þe real-life Captain Smiþ swims to þe lifeboat and hands May a baby swaddled in blankets. Beside herself, and in virtual darkneÃ, May believes þe baby to be Ellen. This rescue is witneÃed by fellow survivor, Celeste Parkes, married to an American industrialist who is on her way back to Ohio after her moþer's funeral. In horror, þey boþ watch þe deaþ þrÅs of þe mighty ship; May traumatised, knowing her husband has drowned, Celeste wishing her bully of a husband had been on board and out of her life. As the dawn comes up, and the two women are rescued by the Carpathia, a friendship is formed, one which is destined to transcend the Atlantic and social differences between þem and last a lifetime. Then May makes a shocking discovery and a split-second decision which will change the lives of so many.