Set in early 1800s, England...Harriet, is the last surviving Wyndham in her family and has inherited the enormous Wyndham estate, on the outskirts of Bath, in Somerset. Having dealt with some troubling times over recent years, she feels she is finally ready to make a life for herself in her own home.She travels to Bath, leaving behind the only family she has known for the past fifteen years, at Eastease in Lincolnshire. Travelling with her is her guardian, Nathaniel Ackley, and his family, who live at Redway Acres.Harriet takes over running Wyndham House and presides over all who work there, making friends with Bertram Horncastle and Baroness Freyley, and learning about her mother's estranged family, the Marshams.Her passion of music comes to the fore, until the day she finally has to make a choice between fulfilling that passion and the man with whom she is in love.