Brooding, plotting, keeping secrets and the odd spot of murder: these things are pretty much compulsory on the stereotypical dark winter moorland of northern England in the Victorian era. Cordelia, Lady Cornbrook is a Victorian widow with no intention of playing society's games any longer. She wilfully refuses to remarry, and speaks to her maid like she's an actual human being. The horror! Trouble stalks a rebel like that, and trouble follows Cordelia...