Lucy Sigler had never had an easy life, but when she moves to Greenock, she feels that everything will start to smooth out. However, nothing is ever smooth for a Waterloo road student. It takes a while for the trouble to start up, but as soon as it does Lucy finds herself breaking the law, lying to everyone she knows and hiding a huge secret. All it takes is for her to open her mouth and tell the truth for someone else's life to be ruined, and with her feelings towards him being more than just admiration, she knows that the truth is definitely not worth the pain.
Charley Mason is Rachel masons daughter. Charley is a teacher at waterloo road. She gets a shock when Rachel arrives at waterloo road as the new head. Charley and Rachel have a lot of tension. Charley hated Rachel for something that happened. Charely had a baby when she was sixteen and Rachel gave away her daughter behind her back.
Charley never forgave Rachel for what she had done and refuses to. She feels empty knowing her daughter is out there. Charley and tom clarkson soon get close and Charley starts to open up over her hatred towards Rachel and what happened. Tom supports Charley through it all as she starts to fall for him.But will Charley be strong enough to look for her daughter or will she let her daughter go?