"I'm happy that it's all over. Now we can all start again." Together again, Theodore Norlong and Gertrude Norlong are happily married. Free to enjoy their lives together, it doesn't take long for cracks to appear in the relationship. As Theodore makes his desires to become a Member of Parliament clear and Gertrude dedicates herself to saving the women of the slums, marriage and a happy home life become secondary. In the heart of London, Edward Urwin...

"One day he'll get what he deserves." Johann Brandt continues to hide from his brother as the Nazi occupation of Warsaw continues. As the ghetto wall is erected and the Jews are segregated, Johann makes the ultimate sacrifice in an attempt to save them: he joins them in the ghetto. Elsewhere, amongst the muck and the poverty, Oliver Rosen is drawn to a flame in the darkness. Zaneta Krawczak is a young prostitute Oliver takes into the resistance....

"This is where your Fuhrer led you. Remember that when you die." The resistance in Warsaw has fallen and Johann is left to flee back to Germany with the shattered remnants of the Wehrmacht. Forced to join the forces of evil he has fought against for nearly twenty years, Johann finds himself in Berlin, a city under siege, in April 1945. Elsewhere Erich has fled his posting at Auschwitz in Poland, determined to destroy his wife and take his son far...

"Just another reason to leave this rotten, uncaring city behind." Three years after the Ebonson family's fall from grace and Gertrude Ebonson has become what no woman wants to be. As a fallen woman, she trades the only thing she has left to survive the cold winters. Penniless and isolated from her friends, she contemplates the end of her life. Meanwhile, Theodore Norlong lives under the iron fist of his abusive aristocratic father. Forced into a...

"He knew he didn't have any other choice if he wanted to keep his head." The Great War is over and millions lay dead across the nations of Europe. John finally makes it home one year after the armistice. Embittered and with nothing to come back to, John settles in London. After a smuggling deal gone wrong, John is, once again, forced to flee to the only place he knows: Motbridge. But the memories of the locals are long and they haven't forgiven...

"Before he died, his final thoughts were of home." Europe is on the road to war. The year is 1933 and John finds himself in Paris, once again forced to flee for his life. But, when he discovers that his pursuer Ronald Bell is dead, he takes the chance to return to England. But, with the baggage of a dead man and his old friends looking to force him into their service again, John realises he can't start a new life now that he's a rich man. Torn between...

"After five years they had found freedom again." Adolf Hitler has swept into power and already the democratic mechanisms of the old Weimar Republic have been dismantled. Nazi Germany has risen and Hitler already has his eyes on expanding the Third Reich. Jews, communists, gypsies, and homosexuals are all targets for the new regime. Now in Berlin, Erich is appointed to the SS, where he works with Reinhard Heydrich's Gestapo to make the country fall...

"They were no longer worlds apart. They shared the same world." Fawcett Manor explodes into nothingness as John Williams puts the finishing, touches on the expansion of the Imperial Longford shipyard. But, little does he know this seemingly innocuous act would open up lawsuits, an attempted takeover of his shipyard, and a man who wants to murder him. John struggles to cope as Sir Albert Blackwood turns against him and he, grows further and further...

Richard Warren, now eighteen, takes his first steps into adulthood. Following his return from London, his parents have booted him out of the nest and he's on the road…residing about ten miles down it with the affluent Spencer family. As the era of glam rock descends upon Britain, Richard is back working at the Ripon Chronicle. With his first love back from London, Richard must contend with a rising career as a journalist that takes him up to Newcastle...

Monotony on the Western Front sets in, only for it to be shattered by the arrival of Edward Warren, Jack's villainous father. Within days, Edward seeks to weaken and destroy the friendships 16-year-old Danny Keeton has built with his family and friends. On the Western Front Danny discovers the class system and an obsession with reaching the upper echelons of British society is alive and well. Edward ropes him into a deadly game that could cost him...