The Rowan Tree

the long version

When David Merrick, Chaplain to the Forces, was invalidated out of the army for six months, he sustained a crushing disappointment at the hands of the girl he had come home to marry.... When David Merrick went north to Glen Croyalt, he was putting behind him the memory of an engagement heartlessly broken by his fiancee at the last minute. Although he refused to allow himself to become embittered about women in general, he meant to give his whole mind to making a success of his exacting job. But here, in this tiny Scottish village. he was destined to find a woman he could really love - only to find, too, that she was divided from him by an apparently impassable barrier. Could he at any rate stay and help her as a friend —in the teeth of local prejudice - or should he put distance between them, giving up work and love together?