Simla India 1914. Married at 18 to the dashing Jack beautiful Elizabeth Ravenhart is devastated when their dazzling party of a marriage is cut tragically short. Bess is persuaded by Jack’s mother the indomitable Cora Ravenhart to return to England leaving her infant son Frazer in his grandparents’ care until Bess can afford to send for him. But Cora has no intention of parting with him and Bess’s attempts to track them down come to a shattering conclusion. Twenty years later a knock on Bess’s front door sets in motion a chain of events that no one could have foreseen. For Frazer has come to claim his birthright the majestic brooding Ravenhart House. None of their lives will ever be the same again…