Jack, Annie and Tom are three adolescents happily growing up together in the Suffolk countryside. But the innocence of youth is fading and being replaced by an awareness of developing passions that distort their friendship. Jack has come to view Annie in a different light, and Tom no longer seems the amiable playmate he once was. The trials and tribulations the trio are about to encounter are deepened further by the manipulative landowner, Nigel de Vere, who is about to cast his shadow over the entire village community of Upper Bristow.

It is early twentieth century, and Thomas Llewellyn is a prominent City banker who purchases a castle close to the north east coast of England. The aim of his acquisition is to accommodate and entertain his wealthy clients, but a shipwreck he witnesses is about to change his life for ever. Llewellyn's dream existence is about to become a nightmare...

Women Are Nothing But Trouble. Such were the thoughts of Dylan's alcohol laced brain as he drank himself into oblivion over the loss of Wishy. That was easier than ending his sorry life with a gun shot to his own head. He was pretty close to self annihilation, too, when the arrival of Claire, an ill mannered she-devil from America sharply woke him from his stupor. She didn't want to be there, at his ancestral home, any more than he wanted her there. She soon became the bane of his sorry arsed existence...one that he could not resist. Somehow, he knew that unmanageable woman would either give...

Betrothed Waking with amnesia, this is what Luther Rollins was being told as he was led to Gretna Green to be married over the anvil by one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen. How could he forget such a beauty? How could he believe her story? Was it true that he was a no good wastrel who put his friends, women and drink ahead of his responsibilities? Roslynn prayed that Luther would never get his memory back because if he did, he would surely run away from her again once he learned that she had kidnapped him.