Julia Barrie

It's 1922 and the Depression is just beginning to rear its head in Britain, but Ruby Morgan is about to marry her childhood sweetheart and nothing can mar her happiness. Or so she thinks. An unimaginable betrayal by those she loves causes her to flee her home and family one snowy night. Crushed and heartbroken, Ruby vows that despite the odds stacked against her she will not only survive, but one day will show the ones she left behind that she's succeeded...

East Germany, 1975. Karin Muller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing. But Muller soon finds her problems have followed her.

East Berlin, 1975. A teenage girl's body at the foot of the Wall. The Stasi say she was shot while escaping - but from the West. Oberleutnant Karin Muller, in the People's Police, suspects otherwise. But in East Germany, there is nothing more dangerous than asking questions. Especially when the answers lead very close to home.

Thirty years have passed since Greta Marchmont left the Marchmont Hall. Now she finally returns, with amnesia and no memory of her past. But a walk through the wintry landscape leads to a disturbing discovery: she comes across a grave in the forest, and the weathered inscription on the cross tells her that her own son is buried here. Greta begins to search for the woman she once was and to do so, she must summon all of her courage.

Ellie Quicke is confronted by an angry young man, demanding to know what has happened to his elderly great aunt. Flavia Osborne had refused to move in with her relatives, telling everyone that she'd sold her secluded house and was moving to a retirement flat but never arrived there.

When the battered body of a teenage boy is found in a lake, Karin Muller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, returns to lead the investigation. But in East Germany, her power only stretches so far. Searching for answers, Muller must work behind the backs of the Stasi if she wants to uncover the truth. And with the possibility of a broader conspiracy at large - one that affects even those closest to her - the stakes are higher than ever,...