Beatrice Steel, eldest daughter of Simon Steel, is and always has been and always will be obsessed about her family home. Since her mother died, she has been mistress of the manse and she enjoys that position well. Her sisters, Helen and Marion, are engaged to be wed. The youngest sister, Rosie, is not yet betrothed. She perplexes everyone when she continues to be friends with neighbors, Robbie and his mother, Annie, MacIntosh. Robbie's father had been given the land years ago by Beatrice Steel's grandfather. This irks her.After the unexpected death of her father, Beatrice and the rest of the family learn from the solicitor that Beatrice gets the house and along with it all the debts incurred by her father: gambling debts, mortgages on the house, loans from loan sharks and mostly finding out that her father was a womanizer, paying for their favors using household expense monies. Now Beatrice decides she needs to plot to protect her position and mostly what is hers: THE HOUSE. She will sacrifice anything and anyone to protect it.Read on to find out what Beatrice will do and how she manages to put a distance between herself and her sisters all for the love of that HOUSE.
