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In this evocative tale of life in India between the wars, friendships will be tested and loyalties torn. But can love win the day?

Edinburgh, 1922: Nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern wächst Sophie bei ihrer Tante in Schottland zu einer blühenden jungen Frau heran. Mit den Jahren verschwimmen die Bilder ihrer Kindheit auf einer Teeplantage in Assam. Die Sehnsucht nach einer Rückkehr erwacht, als Sophie den charismatischen Tam kennenlernt, der bald nach Indien gehen wird. Da auch ihre beste Freundin Tilly ihrem Ehemann in die britische Kolonie folgt, beschließt Sophie auf ihr Herz zu hören. Doch das Leben in Indien ist ganz anders, als sie es in Erinnerung hatte.

1976: Friends Marcus and Ruth go missing during an overland bus trip to Kathmandu. A generation later, Ruth’s niece Amber, haunted by the disintegration of her family, determines to get at the truth of their disappearance. Tracking down the trip’s bus driver, Cassidy, Amber starts to piece together a lost world - the mystical vibrant hippy trail to India. As the mystery unfolds, Amber begins a journey that leads her into the dark secrets of the past and face-to-face with a tragedy much closer to home.

Scotland, 1722: on a windswept island, an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy and the birth of an extraordinary child. That child is the free-spirited Flora, daughter of Marion. When her father dies, Flora and her mother are plunged into poverty. Until her mother's former lover takes them to Skye, where he swiftly marries Marion. When the Clanranalds are invited to a grand wedding in Skye, Flora finds herself irresistibly drawn to Allan of Kingsburgh, one of the mighty Skye MacDonalds.

Filled with excitement and trepidation, Jeanie Munro is returning to India and her husband, Mungo, having been forced apart from him by the Second World War. Together, they can start their longed-for family. But post-war India is in a ferment of change and the undercurrents of tension begin to disturb their tranquillity. Still grieving for her beloved brother, killed in action, Jeanie tries to make the most of her new life. Her only true friends are the Lomaxes, a family haunted by scandal and owners of the glamorous Raj Hotel. 

In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had a soft spot for boisterous Andrew, though she dreams of meeting a soulmate from outside the close-knit community. But life is turned on its head when one scandal shatters their friendship and another sees her abandoned by the man she thought she loved. 

Abandoned as a baby and raised in a remote lighthouse off the wild Northumberland coast, Alice Fairchild has always dreamed of adventure. When a fierce storm wrecks a ship nearby, she risks everything in an act of bravery that alters the course of her life. Aboard the doomed vessel is the handsome John Sinclair, a Scottish soldier on his way to India. The connection between them is instant, but soon fate intervenes and leaves Alice heartbroken and alone. Determined to take charge of her destiny but secretly hoping her path will cross again with John’s, she too makes a new start in colonial India.

Zwischen der üppigen Pracht Indiens und der rauen Realität des viktorianischen Englands behauptet sich die junge Clarissa mit Mut und Hartnäckigkeit gegen ihr Schicksal. Assam, Indien 1904: Seit dem Tod ihres Vaters versucht die junge Clarissa verzweifelt, die Teeplantage ihrer Familie zu retten. Die schöne und eigenwillige junge Frau zieht die Aufmerksamkeit des attraktiven Wesley Robson auf sich, eines forschen Teepflanzers, der ihr stärkster Konkurrent ist. Doch das Schicksal ist unbarmherzig.