A powerful family drama set in India and Scotland, from 1915 to the 1960sIts 1915 when young Bess Ravenhart, recently widowed, leaves her baby son Frazer with her mother-in-law, Cora, while she sails from India to Britain to set up a home. But Cora has no intention of returning Frazer to his mothers care. Though Bess makes a new life in Edinburgh and knows the joy - and pain - of motherhood with further children, her heart always aches for the little boy she left behind. When Frazer travels to Scotland twenty years later, it seems Besss dreams of a reconciliation will come true. But Frazer trails danger in his wake, and its possible that not only he but also Bess and her whole family will live to rue the day of his return...
