Mark Umbers

1927: Bella Ainsworth is still devoting her considerable energies to the Hotel Portofino, which has overcome its early troubles and is starting to prosper. But Bella will be forced to confront the reality of her relationship with her no-good husband Cecil--to decide whether to accept him back into her life in the face of her growing friendship with a handsome local architect, Marco Bonacini.

A notorious seductress enters a gossipy society and entices the husband of a faithful young woman, delighting the gossips and prompting a series of unexpected consequences.

A young and inexperienced governess takes a job above her pay grade with a job looking after two orphaned children living on a haunted estate.