Prologue/Description: Though Diana Langley did decorate her home festively this past Christmas 2021, she didn't have anyone to share it with. And after the Christmas Holidays, there is always a let down. But Diana hopes that the new year of 2022 brings with it new possibilities for friendship, and perhaps more. At twenty eight years old, Diana is young and youthfully beautiful-with lovely auburn hair falling in curling waves over her shoulders, a clear complexion, expressive kind eyes, and full lips that beg to be kissed. She just needs to find the right man whom she wants to kiss, she thinks bemusedly. Were this another era, she would be labeled a spinster. However, in our modern era, women are not defined by their marital status. But for many people, they hope to find that one special someone to share life and love with as they grow old together. And for Diana, she hopes to find a love of a lifetime.

The year is 1955. At the age of 45 years, Samuel "Sam" Wakeforest has everything a man could ever want--a tight knit extended family, blue skies, land that takes his breath away, he is his own boss, and he has a purpose for his life. And yet, his loving but sometimes over bearing older sister Tessa would say that he lacks one thing--a wife and a family to call his own. And Tessa's new sister-in-law Olivia Delaney is just such a prospect. Olivia is shy and plain by her own reckoning--a maiden spinster in her mid thirties. However Tessa sees potential in Olivia--especially for her brother Sam, if his sister Tessa can convince him of that. And Sam's and Olivia's well ordered individual lives will inevitably begin to change as they forge a deepening bond of love when they blend their lives together.

Their love torn apart four years ago by lies and deceit, will former lovers Thomas and Caroline be able to forgive each other and rekindle their relationship? Will fate let them? Thomas and Caroline will become unwitting pawns swept away in an intrigue so secret, that they will not know whom to believe, nor whom to trust. And they will have to fight for the right to love again.

An alternate imagining of Mrs. Gaskell's story, assuming Margaret had been hurt more seriously on the day of the riot. Intertwines elements of both the book and the BBC series, but focuses less on angst and more on the relationship of John Thornton and Margaret Hale.