Forced into a loveless marriage ... Heiress Tara Nankervis is beautiful, yet pained. She is forced to share a devastating secret with her much older and destructive husband Joshua. So she plans to leave Meryen once and for all, taking her daughter with her ... But for Sarah Kivell, who had thought that the death of her evil, tyrannical husband Titus would set her free, she never anticipated that Titus would reach beyond the grave in the form of his belligerent son Kit, who's determined to wreak havoc in the lives of all those in Meryen ...