Switching continuously between 1984 and the present day, the plot follows the intertwined lives of five characters, all linked in various ways to the miners' strike. As the lives of the characters unfold, it becomes clear the strike will have devastating repercussions.

At the end, he has just enough energy to spit in her face.2001: sixteen-year-old Kerry Lumsdon runs across the same terrain. She runs to win and she runs to forget. When a headless body is found in the wastelands of the Seahills Estate, Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is called in to investigate. Kerry and Lorraine, different ages and from different worlds, come together when Claire Lumsdon, Kerry's sister, is violently kidnapped - the fourth in...

When John Mitchell and his family inherit a large estate in Cornwall, they move in from their comfortable living in Whitby. But whilst Cornwall presents an idyllic life, there is opposition in the form of the powerful Gaisford family - and the union of Abigail Mitchell and Luke Gaisford does little to quell the warring factions.