Beautiful young heiress Tara Nankervis has never found happiness in her forced marriage to the much older squire Joshua, whose destructive secret she is forced to share. So she plans to leave Meryen once and for all, taking her daughter by the squire's brother with her, in search of the happiness she deserves...Sarah Kivell had thought that the death of her evil, tyrannical husband Titus, head of the once noble but now criminal Kivell clan, would set her free. But little did Sarah anticipate 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...