Gwen Kirkwood

When 17-year-old Marie Sinclair travelled to Strathlinn in Scotland in 1920 to visit her brother and his new family, all she was looking for is rest and recuperation after the death of Lady Hanley, for whom she had been caring for over the past 18 months....

William and Emma Sinclair have settled into life at Moorend Farm in North Yorkshire and live happily with their growing family, believing they have left the shame of their past behind....

Seventeenth-century century Scotland. A young Border Reiver is preparing to raid a town along the Anglo-Scottish border....

In 1930s Scotland, families are starving and thousands of farms lie derelict. But Fairlyden has survived thanks to Logan Fairly’s skill as a cattle breeder and his wife’s thriftiness....

Matthew Cameron’s death ends the Camerons’ lease of Nethertannoch....

In 1960s Scotland, the farming industry is on the brink of huge changes, becoming more mechanised and less dependent on manpower, but at Lochandee it’s a time of hope and promise....

In 1906, Beth Jamieson is a little girl of eight, with honey gold curls and the sweetest nature....

At 16, Rachel O’Brian finds herself alone in the world and accepts a home with an old friend of her father’s, but she is unprepared for his wife’s malice....

Young Paul Maxwell and his cousin, Ryan, are determined to work together to restore the farm’s prosperity....

In the years following the end of World War II, life at the Glens of Lochandee is tough....

As Mistress of Fairlyden, and happily married to William Fairly, Sarah feels her life complete....

Janet Scott loves books and learning and is happy living at the schoolhouse where her grandfather is the dominie. When her grandfather dies suddenly, everything changes....

1919. Miss Rina Capel, granddaughter of the Laird of Stavondale, has one ambition - to set aside her life of privilege and become a nurse....