When journalist Elizabeth Balsam is fired, her efforts to pursue the story she was working on lead her to an aunt she has never met and a series of discoveries about her family's dark secrets and connection to history.
Sophie Broadmoor enjoys her life of privilege until she falls in love with Wesley Hedrick, who is not the honorable gentlemen he seemed, and must turn to Paul Medford, a recent seminary graduate and friend of her father, for help.