Set in early twentieth century England, this is the story of Annie Hannigan, a girl who, through her mother's marriage to a wealthy country doctor, went from rags to riches. A flaxen haired, blue eyed beauty, Annie has her share of heartache when the boy she loves, Terence MacBane, seems elusive and out of reach. Her heartbreak is compounded when a vicious acquaintance, Cathleen Davidson, makes it her business to try and see that Annie and Terence...

After a bizarre accident leaves him with amnesia, a young man, Roddy Greenbank, searches for his past and the meaning of his life and strange destiny, in a story of love, hate, and bitterness set in nineteenth-century Northumberland.