Questa serie trasporta i lettori nel mondo di decadenti dimore signorili e nelle vite complesse dei loro abitanti. Segui i personaggi mentre navigano tra segreti, matrimoni in rovina e passati nascosti all'interno di famiglie aristocratiche. Ogni episodio promette un viaggio avvincente in misteri svelati in tenute ancestrali grandiose ma travagliate, offrendo un mix di suspense e dramma sociale.
Accompanying American heiress Belle Seldon on a visit to her ancestral family home in Somerset, Ursula Grandison soon discovers that the decaying stately Mountstanton House and its inhabitants has many secrets, including a crumbling marriage and a missing dowry.
As she struggles to make a living in a society where women have few rights and little freedom, she teams up with old friend and private investigator Thomas Jackman, who soon finds himself drawing on Ursula's investigative abilities as they battle to save an innocent woman from the noose.