
The life of doctor's daughter Molly Gibson changes gradually after her widowed father chooses to remarry. The union brings into her once-quiet life an ever-proper stepmother and flirtatious stepsister, Cynthia, while a friendship with the local squire brings about an unexpected romance.






The first in a four-part period drama about two young girls' rites of passage in 1820s England and the events that shape their lives.
Cynthia arrives from France.
Cynthia has a dangerous secret, and when Molly is drawn into this mystery she too is put at risk.
Molly gets more entangled in Cynthia's secret.