After losing her temper, Alice is sentenced to a whipping for assault. Her father, the local vicar, disgusted with her behaviour, ensures she has the harshest treatment and a lengthy work rehab programme in a subject she won't like.
Martin and Janice had reluctantly accepted her little sister's invitation to a Christmas party, but they had no idea what the night would bring for both of them.
In the suffocating silence of a home haunted by loss, a widow finds herself drowning in an ocean of grief. Her son returns not just as a pillar of strength, but as an answer to a prayer her body was too afraid to voice. As they cross the final, most sacred boundary, they discover that the only comfort deep enough to fill the void of death is a love so profound, it must be forbidden.
Bobby's mother had back luck when it came to love. Having lost two loves, she is faced with raising Bobby alone. But she's still a woman and after failing to find someone, Bobby, now a young man, steps up to the plate...