Wynsdown, 1949: Charlotte Shepherd is happily married and now feels settled in her adopted home after arriving from Germany. Meanwhile, the squire's fighter pilot son, Felix, has returned to the village with a fiancée in tow. Daphne is beautiful, charming and harbouring secrets… For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past is coming back in the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Black. Harry's return disrupts the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreads…
