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Working as a schoolteacher on the Canadian prairie in 1912, Paula Scott is courted by Jake Marriott, the father of one of her pupils. Her friends consider him a good catch, but Paula is secretly in love with Charles Ingram. Charles, however, is engaged to selfish society beauty L...

In 1942, Viney Lucas and her brothers were taken by their mother to live in their grandmother's cottage in Lilac Lane in Wales. A lasting friendship began when Sybil came to live with them. After her father returned home from the war, Viney became tied to caring for him and her b...

When Ruby Byrne and her children emigrate to Canada in 1920, love is the last thing she expects to find. But when widower Robert Kerr proposes, she is happy to accept. Cait is pleased for her mother, yet she can't help thinking about her former fiance, Trevor Thomas, back in Card...

When Florence Williams and her sister Edie inherit houses at Seagull Bay they decide to set themselves up as seaside landladies, catering to summer visitors. There, Florence's daughters become mixed up with two wildly unsuitable young men. Flattered by the attentions of an unscru...

When her engagement to Tom Carson is broken off, Alyssa Grant exchanges city life for an extended stay in the small Canadian town where her elderly Aunt Ruby is recovering from an injury. Ruby, a retired schoolteacher who is determined to set the world to rights, now has a new mi...

When Lucy Lee's grandparents reveal a shocking secret from her childhood, her world changes dramatically. She begins a new life, far removed from the outdoor living that is a Romany's, and is separated from her beloved Jasper Petulengro. Lucy learns to be a lady, and receives an ...

While King Henry VIII is exchanging one wife for another, life continues in its usual way for Meg Makepeace. That is, until she makes a grim discovery in the churchyard - which in turn leads her to a chance encounter with handsome John Dilley. They are instantly attracted to each...

Spring is just around the corner in Llandyfan, and the first crocuses are beginning to bloom. Then the beautiful morning is shattered by the discovery of a corpse in the glebe - the victim of a grisly murder. Who could have wanted poor Fred Woolton, the mild-mannered milkman, dea...

Post-war midwife Maudie Rouse has her hands full tending to the pregnant, sick and injured villagers of Llandyfan, acting as their counsellor, and preparing for changes as the NHS comes into existence - including the possibility of being forced to move away from the people and th...

Newly single and enjoying her job as an office temp, Rowena Dexter sees new hope for the future when she starts dating barrister Tom Forrest. But memories of a terrifying childhood incident resurface when she receives threatening e-mails. She was in the house when her aunt was mu...

When midwife Maudie Rouse marries the love of her life, policeman Dick Bryant, the pair could not be happier as they settle into contented domesticity in the village of Llandyfan. But troubles abound for the newlyweds - an abandoned baby, a difficult new district nurse, and the p...

When Ruth Greene's cousin Dora has to go into hospital, Ruth's family rallies round by going to look after the grocery shop she runs in her Welsh mining village in Carmarthenshire. This gives them a respite from the London blitz, but other dangers and excitements await them in th...

Two teachers are evacuated from Coventry to the Welsh countryside, where they struggle with wartime hardship as they help their pupils adjust to a different way of life. Will love follow them there? Vivacious Tansy sees marriage as a way to escape her impoverished background, whi...

When handsome Dr Julian Ransome re-enters her life so many years after their relationship ended, midwife Maudie Rouse isn't sure how to react. But nothing about her old flame is as it seems, and she begins to suspect that something is very wrong. What has happened to the man she ...

When she learns that her partner is not only unfaithful, but also a confidence trickster, Michaela Clarke believes that she can never trust a man again. While struggling to come to terms with what has happened to her she meets handsome Jerome Marshall. While instantly attracted t...

When her aunt dies, Jemima is offered a home with her stern uncle, but vows to make her own way in the world by working as a chambermaid at a coaching inn. She falls for the handsome and fascinating Giles Morton, but he has a menacing secret that could endanger them both. When Je...

After finding a body in the woods, post-war midwife Maudie Rouse takes a turn as an amateur sleuth, questioning the residents of the sleepy village of Llandyfan - between births and cups of tea - in a quest to track down the murderer. The brief disappearance of little Polly, and ...

1948. Midwife Maudie Rouse looks forward to working with Llandyfan's handsome new doctor, Leonard Lennox, but is he all that he seems? When a young woman named Paula Mason turns up claiming to be his fiancee, this sets into motion a train of events that lead to her murder. The do...