A VIVID AND GRIPPING PORTRAYAL OF WORLDS COLLIDING AND LOVE CONQUERING ALL.

1919, Bristol. Megan Williams steps down from the steam train at Bristol’s Temple Meads station and into a new world. Unsophisticated but steadfast, she has been forced to leave her little Welsh village behind to support her family when her father becomes too ill. Megan takes a job as a kitchen maid at Redcliffe House. But trouble awaits her . . .

Her sly cousin Lizzie is already a parlour maid with the Fothergill family. But there has never been any love lost between the cousins and Lizzie is determined to make things difficult for Megan.

A maelstrom of feuds and jealousies ensnares the upstairs residents and downstairs staff. Megan manages to make friends but she soon finds herself caught between the two sons — lustful Harold and kind Robert, who’s recently returned shell-shocked from Flanders battlefields. Then Megan is called back home, but she returns carrying a secret of her own that could make her lose everything. Through love and heartache, anguish and betrayal, can Megan finally find a path towards happiness?