On Netherwood Common, Anna Rabinovich shows Eve Williams a house: a large Victorian Villa, solidly built from Yorkshire stone, with wide bay windows that look out over the rugged landscape of the common. This is Ravenscliffe, and it's the house Anna wants them to live in. It's their house, she says. It was meant to be. Anna transforms the neglected Ravenscliffe and with a growing attraction between her and mineworker Amos also on the horizon, Anna may finally be able to move on from her old life. But when Eve's long-lost brother Silas returns, a rift begins to open up between the two women. Meanwhile, things at Netherwood Hall are changing. Below stairs, the staff struggle to preserve the dignity of the old order but Tobias Hoyland and his young bride Thea Stirling seem to have different ideas. Tragedy, deception and old grudges will test those relationships that have long since been held dear and no one can be sure which ones will survive.