Voices From the Sea: It is 1865. Eppie, a young widow with a child to bring up can't believe her luck when she gets the position of housekeeper to wealthy widower Alexander Geddes. He and his teenage son, Duncan, are a dream to work for, but daughter Lydia is moody, spoiled and temperamental - and convinced that Eppie has designs on Alexander. And there are tensions elsewhere in the household, especially when Duncan returns home with a stranger hiding a mysterious past ...

Staying On: For the duration of the Second World War, the Island of Bute has been home to flame-haired Mollie McCabe, her mother, sister and two brothers. So when the war ends and her brutal, bullying father comes to take his family back to Glasgow, the McCabes are loathe to leave. But now peace has broken out, the community can no longer afford to give the McCabes the same warm welcome. And tensions boil over when Mollie is on the receiving end of local man Angus Scott's sharp tongue ? a sharpness that hides a burning, unrequited passion ...