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Emily Taylor, a young headmistress from Yorkshire, first sails aboard the RMS ‘Lusitania’ in 1910 whilst travelling to attend a family wedding on Long Island in America. During that first voyage, she makes a number of acquaintances, all with secrets in their pasts: Amelia Davenport, a flamboyant elderly widow with a salacious history, who is emigrating to America with her son and his family; Sam Jackson, a tough New York Police Inspector, driven by a personal vendetta; Christian Verholt, the heir to a wealthy banking dynasty whose double life includes a mysterious partner; and Niall Branigan, the charming Irish doctor whose twinkling emerald eyes mask hidden family secrets. But as the threat of the First World War looms, it is not only Emily’s life that changes dramatically as a consequence of these encounters, but also the lives of those close to her back in England.
Helen Siddall is an orphan girl who possesses beauty, intellect and youth. She is unaware that her maternal family is one of the wealthiest in the North of England. Brought up in her paternal aunts working class home, she struggles against the jealousy of her young cousin Harry whilst becoming attracted to her older cousin, Thomas. Harry endeavours to destroy both her life and her relationship with Thomas. Secrets from her family history also conspire to produce twists and turns in the story which spans three decades between the two World Wars involving conflict, love and intrigue.
18 -1905 include the Annual report of the superintendent of public schools.