It is 1912 in the Yorkshire Dales. Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer. Money is scarce and pride doesn't pay the doctor, or put food on the table. Alice gets work at Whernside Manor, looking after Lord Frankland's fragile sister Miss Nancy. Will and his best friend Jack begin working for the Lord of the Manor at the marble mill. But their purpose there is not an honest one. For a while everything runs smoothly. But corruption, attempted murder and misplaced love are just waiting in the wings. Nothing is as it seems and before they know it, Alice and Will's lives are entwined with those of the Franklands - and nothing will ever be the same again.
