Sara MacDonald

When Mark Hannah finds a beautiful ship's figurehead he traces its origins to a small Cornish port. There he meets restorer Gabrielle Ellis, and the attraction between them is immediate and mutual. As neither wants to break up their marriages and families, they begin a secret relationship in London.

Jenny and Ruth were best friends until Ruth moved from their Cornish village and they lost contact. Years later, a chance meeting throws both their lives into turmoil. Ruth's son Adam, is the image of Jenny's husband who was killed tragically six months earlier. As Jenny discovers the truth about Adam, a powerful bond springs up between them that will have unforeseen consequences for both families.

David, Fleur and their twins Saffie and Nikki have a blissfully happy life as an army family in the Far East. When david is killed, Fleur decides to bring the twins to England, But Saffie mysteriously vanishes from a Malaysian beach. Years later Nikki is haunted by half-memories that send shockwaves through the family.

When Lucy Tremain goes to stay with her grandparents in their house in Cornwall overlooking the sea, she finds family papers hidden in the old cottage. The papers hint at wartime secrets. From them emerges her grandmother’s story – a hidden story of wartime courage and terrible deprivation. And for three generations of the Tremain family the papers turn their lives upside down.

Jake is older, talented, exciting. But when Sigrid is isolated with him in a remote cottage on the moors, he becomes as dangerous and frightening as the landscape. Flying from Jake's violence, Sigrid takes refuge with friends in St Ives and begins to find peace and a new love. But Jake explodes again into this safe life, making her face her conflicting and powerful feelings for him. Across the rugged coastline of Cornwall and the bleak and beautiful spaces of Dartmoor, the cycle of damage must be broken before the future can emerge.