Jessica Stirling continues the epic of love, greed and betrayal that began in The Island Wife in her magnificent novel, The Wind from the Hills. For Innis and Biddy, daughters of the embittered Vassie Campbell, life has changed greatly from the days when they were poor crofters. Innis, the mother of three young children, has found that marriage to handsome Michael Tarrant is utterly different from the idyll she expected. And, Biddy has become only...

One rain-swept February night in 1809, an unconscious man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's forces in Spain. Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his peace of mind - he cannot talk about the war or face the memory of what happened in a village on the gruelling retreat to Corunna. After the command comes to return to his regiment, he sets out instead...

Alison Burnside, a young woman from a modest family, and wealthy Babs Logie make life choices somewhat different from what is expected of them as young women in 1930s Glasgow.

Lord Ravenswood's son, Edgar, seeks to avenge his father's name and restore the title and property stolen from him by the devious Sir William Ashton, but when Edgar falls in love with Ashton's daughter, Lucy, the ancient prophecy of Ravenswood comes between them.

Princess Gabrielle of St. Biel is sent to Scotland by King John of England to marry a Highland chieftain in hopes of deterring conflict along the border, and while on her way, she saves the life of a man, resulting in her marrying the man's brother and the start of a war.