The second volume in a new saga from the popular Cornish author The Great War is over, and the Harvey family of Ford Farm are slowly picking up the pieces of their lives. But Alec and Emilia's newly-wedded bliss is tragically shattered when their third child is born with a life-threatening disease, a fate which Alec in particular finds hard to accept. Meanwhile Alec's relationships with his two brothers, Ben and Tristram, are strained by their differing loyalties and ambitions for the farm and Emilia is torn reluctantly between them...