It is 1919 and poverty in the mining village where 16 year old Megan Williams lives, forces her to leave her loving family to work as a kitchen maid in Bristol.Her sly cousin Lizzie is already a parlour maid at Redcliffe House and is determined to make things difficult for Megan. But it was never going to be easy for both upstairs and downstairs it is a maelstrom of feuds and jealousies. Megan finds herself a pawn in the battle for power between the two sons of the house, the lustful Harold Fothergill and Robert, recently returned shell-shocked from Flanders battlefields.But Megan finds friends as well as enemies and in the darkest of times she has to call upon all the courage and determination in her character in order to help her distraught family.But has she lost her own chance of happiness in the process?