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Nessie Mead is pleased to be given temporary work picking strawberries. But old admirer Jake Taylor, now in a position of authority, takes advantage of the situation. Nine months later, Nessie bears a baby girl marked with a hideous strawberry birthmark. She cannot bring herself to love the child and it is a relief when she is told it has died.Some miles away the Hunter family is made complete by the arrival of twin girls. belinda is blonde and pretty, but her sister Rachel is disfigured by a birthmark and, as a child, suffers greatly from the taunts of schoolfellows. A chance meeting with a gypsy and kas, a handsome young traveller, sets her mind at rest.One day the mark will fade and Rachel will be as beautiful as her sister. In time gypsy´s prediction comes true. Now a lovely young woman, Rachel falls in love with Adam, a local carpenter. But when he breaks off their engagement, Rachel, unhinged by shock, runs away. Given shelter by the gypsies, her growing love for kas helps her come to terms with the loss of her fiancé. but when she returns home she receives the greatest shock of all. Thrown into confusion about her own parentage, she realizes there will be no peace for her until she discovers the truth - however painful the consequences...