After Prudence's hasty marriage and escape from Summerset with Andrew Wilkes, Victoria and Rowena are at loose ends. Neither expected the woman raised as their sister to suddenly abandon them, but Rowena's guilt over the family's treatment of Pru and Victoria's insatiable gaiety gloss over the pain of losing their friend.
Rowena discovers her passion for flying and the young man teacher her to fly are powerful enough to bring her back from the brink of the depression she has sunk into since her father's death. Jon reappears despite his family's abhorrence of the Buxtons. The fledgling romance between Miss Rowena Buxton and Jonathan
Victoria Buxton confides in her newly acquired best friend, Kit Kittredge, her hopes and dreams. But while Victoria is passionately fighting for what she innocently believes is right, Kit finds his friend more and more alluring.
Prudence never belonged below-stairs at Summerset, her new marriage to Andrew shows her how sheltered her life has been. Yet as life settles between the two memories of Sebastian Billingsley surface and Prudence questions her love for her husband. Avoiding her old life is the only way she can avoid the pain Sebastian's memories bring.
When Victoria's naivette lands her danger her desire for independence nearly takes her life. Prudence and Rowena unite against their quarrels to find their sister and bring her home safely.
The young women of the Buxton household were raised to believe in the individual merits each person achieves. When their backgrounds no longer prepare them for the world they live in, each young woman searches for a new place to belong. Though they are limited by a woman's place in pre-World War I England, they are in possession of clever minds and passionate dreams which push them to find new stations to fulfill. While written for avid fans of Downton Abbey, readers of all ages and tastes can find something to capture their interest in T.J. Brown's Summerset Abbey books.
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