Ben Roberts

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

WPC Ackland finds herself the target of an assassin's bullet.

Despite seemingly having everything (a husband, children, a house), Jean is unsatisfied.

Several people with amnesia realize they may have been involved in something sinister on a cosmic scale.