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When her Maltese love affair turns sour, Lara McDonald returns to her quiet Scottish hometown of Fairview, heartbroken yet determined. Instead of looking for another PR position, she decides to follow her dream of baking. She impulsively takes the first job offered and finds herself working for local dragon Kitty Walker in her tearoom True Brew. Lara's life is full of surprises, however, not the least being an unlikely friendship forged with one of Kitty's elderly customers, the Laird Hugo Carmichael.

Eleanora has had a failed marriage and she lives with her mother, a religious woman. They take in a house boarder. This is all simple enough. Yet the past that slowly reveals itself is eating this family of sorts alive, and draws Eleanora to a room, and a place within herself which she may not survive....

"The Red Room" is a short gothic story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of The Idler magazine. An unnamed protagonist chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room, colored bright red in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove the legends surrounding it. Despite vague warnings from the three infirm custodians who reside in the castle, the narrator ascends to "the Red Room" to begin his night's vigil.

L'amàlia és violoncel·lista i té una vida aparentment feliç fins que la seva filla Laura, de només set anys, mort de manera sobtada, una 'csualitat tràgia'. La vida de l'Amàlia es desmunta com un castell de cartes. Es vol morir, però no n'és capaç i, a poc a poc, anirà reconstruint la seva vida al mateix temps que coneixerà els secrets que amaguen els seus familiars més propers.