Marcia Willett

Matt's mother had kept many photos of Matt as a child, but something about them always puzzled Matt. Was that really him? Why did he not remember those clothes? The toys? And where, in the photos, was his sister Imogen?

Jess is on her way to Devon to receive an award. Hosting her will be Kate and her close unit of family and friends. As they begin reminiscing with Jess, it becomes apparent that her family history may be linked with theirs. Long-buried secrets from past generations begin to be uncovered but at what cost have they been kept hidden? Originally publis

When Mattie invites her old friend Tim to stay in one of her family cottages on the edge of Dartmoor, she senses there is something he is not telling her. Having left behind his old life in London in a rush, Tim is unusually quiet, as if he is holding on to a painful secret. But as he gets to know the rest of the warm jumble of family by the moor, Tim discovers that everyone there has their own secrets. There is Charlotte, a young navy wife struggling...

Frances and Stephen are worried about their son, who wrongly blames himself for a fatal accident. Pippa, abandoned by her husband, moves in with her godfather's widow. When Max inherits some land on Dartmoor, he inspires them all to start over.

Brigid has always thought that her mother favoured her sister Jemima over her. The mother arrives to stay at Brigid's home in Devon at around the time that two murders occur. This draws the two women together in a way that nothing else could.