When her engagement to Tom Carson is broken off, Alyssa Grant exchanges city life for an extended stay in the small Canadian town where her elderly Aunt Ruby is recovering from an injury. Ruby, a retired schoolteacher who is determined to set the world to rights, now has a new mission: to help her niece find her way back to happiness. Will Alyssa be reunited with Tom, or find a new love with Ruby's choice, handsome policeman Ben O'Hare?
When handsome Dr Julian Ransome re-enters her life so many years after their relationship ended, midwife Maudie Rouse isn't sure how to react. But nothing about her old flame is as it seems, and she begins to suspect that something is very wrong. What has happened to the man she once knew? When danger threatens, can she survive it to marry her new love?
When Nesta Davies comes home to Hollyhill to care for her son's ailing wife, she learns that an old woman has died there in mysterious circumstances. After a young mother is lured to her death, saved only by Nesta's intervention, she vows to uncover the truth. As a midwife who delivers babies and lays out the dead, Nesta has access to every household in the district. Can what she learns there help her to solve the hamlet's crime wave?
Ghost writer Fiona Flint suspects Aaron Parker of trying to defraud elderly investors. She persuades Jeremy Dean, a former colleague, to investigate. Jeremy hopes to rekindle their romance, but can she ever forgive the mistake he made in the past?
The Great War brings sadness for Nurse Emma Meadows and her parents: her brother has an accident while learning to fly a biplane, and after a neighbour spurns her, their young sister runs away from home. Emma, herself, loves Dr James Townsend and when he is reported dead on active service in France she goes there to learn the truth.
When Ruby Byrne and her children emigrate to Canada in 1920, love is the last thing she expects to find. But when widower Robert Kerr proposes, she is happy to accept. Cait is pleased for her mother, yet she can't help thinking about her former fiance, Trevor Thomas, back in Cardiff. Robert's son, Martin, is determined to win Cait as his bride, but is it fair to marry him when Trevor is still in her heart?
When midwife Maudie Rouse marries the love of her life, policeman Dick Bryant, the pair could not be happier as they settle into contented domesticity in the village of Llandyfan. But troubles abound for the newlyweds - an abandoned baby, a difficult new district nurse, and the possibility of losing their home - and Maudie must find a way to deal with the problems, in addition to bicycling around the village performing her professional duties. Meanwhile, a grim discovery is made in a local farmer's field...
When she learns that her partner is not only unfaithful, but is also a confidence trickster, Michaela Clarke believes that she can never trust a man again. While struggling to come to terms with what has happened to her she meets handsome Jerome Marshall. While instantly attracted to him, she is wary of becoming involved again, especially as he comes from an enormously wealthy family. Can love find a way?
Lydia McFarlane has been used to a life of wealth and privilege, but when her father remarries, her new stepmother starts a systematic campaign to remove Lydia from the family home in Ontario. She runs away to the prairie town of Alberta to become a mail order bride - but life in the Golden West is not as idyllic as she imagined.
Lifelong friends Sophie Wheeler and Kate Kent have reached a crisis in their love lives. James Simpson has proposed to Sophie, but what exactly are his motives? Is he too self-centred to marry? Kate's partner is Mark Roberts, but all the passion seems gone from their relationship. However, Kate is involved in a campaign to save Rosebank, a retirement home, from being sold to a supermarket chain. Will Mark's offer to help the group bring them closer together?
When Lucy Lee's grandparents reveal a shocking secret from her childhood, her world changes dramatically. She begins a new life, far removed from the outdoor living that is a Romany's, and is separated from her beloved Jasper Petulengro. Lucy learns to be a lady, and receives an offer of marriage from the Reverend Clement Orton. But the rakish Ronan Ivory also has plans for her... Can she leave the past behind - along with her true love?
On the same day that she's made redundant, Kat Ingram learns that River Farm, their family home for generations, may have to be sold. To top it all, George Logan, from neighbouring Stoneygates Farm, proposes marriage as a way to help save River Farm. Kat decides to visit her sister in Canada, where she meets and falls for wealthy artist Ambrose Legris. When George tries a more romantic approach, Kat must decide - talented, arrogant Ambrose, or safe, dependable George?
In 1942, Viney Lucas and her brothers were taken by their mother to live in their grandmother's cottage in Lilac Lane in Wales. A lasting friendship began when Sybil came to live with them. On her father's return from the war, Viney became tied to caring for him, whilst Sybil was free to pursue the nursing career they had both dreamed of.
When Ruth Greene's cousin Dora has to go into hospital, Ruth's family rallies round by going to look after the grocery shop she runs in her Welsh mining village in Carmarthenshire. This gives them a respite from the London blitz, but other dangers and excitements await them in their temporary home. Young Basil gets into mischief, while their daughter, Marina, falls in love for the first time. But can her wartime love endure?
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