Annie MacPherson (Trilogy)

The year is 1928 and Annie Melville has been happily married for 11 years to Euan MacPherson. They have a 10 year old son Ian and a daughter Lexie from Annies first marriage to Alex Melville. Annies links to the past and Billy Dawson seemed to have weakened with the passing of time but when Billys daughter Nancy is threatened by her obsessive stepfather Joe Cassiday both Billy and Annie are forced together again and have to face the deep emotional response their meeting has aroused as it surfaces again. Annie has to seek Billys help too for her own daughter Lexie who wants to work in the mill as a Weaver like her mother and again he comes to Annies rescue causing waves of guilt to envelope her every time Euan shows his deep love for her. Time and again fate seems to push Annie and Billy towards one another each recognizing that the bond between them is still there despite Billys wife Josie trying to keep them both as far apart as possible to the extend of trying to ban Lexie from being friends with her own daughter Sarah on the basis that Lexie is a bad influence on her. Euan too gets brought into the complex situation when Nancy becomes pregnant to her boyfriend Billy Donnelly and he and Billy Dawson join forces to find Billy before the obsessive Joe Cassiday does. As this historical romance moves onto the lives of Lexie and Nancy fate has one more hand to deal Annie. A letter arrives from Ireland which disturbs and frightens her and at the christening of Mary Anne Nancys newborn daughterf things come to a head with Billy Dawson leaving Annie with a decision to make that could chance all of their lives forever.