For three generations, Rochford Manor has dominated the lives of the women who live there. Willow Rochford became its chatelaine at seventeen. Her daughter, Lucy, taken from her mother and her home as an infant, fought long and hard to return to the life that should have been hers within its walls. For Zandra, Willow Rochford's young niece, the house became a place of sanctuary after the tragic death of her parents. But when the Rochfords' family business falls victim to the Wall Street Crash, the future looks bleak and Rochford Manor itself is threatened...