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1905, India. Clarissa Belhaven and her younger sister Olive live a charmed and carefree life on their father's thriving tea plantation, but when the business begins to fail Wesley Robson, a brash young rival, offers to help save the plantation in exchange for Clarrie's hand in marriage. Her father refuses, and when he dies suddenly, his daughters are forced to return to Tyneside. To provide for them, Clarrie takes a job as housekeeper to kindly Herbert Stock, and with his support she achieves her dream of opening her own tea house - then Wesley Robson comes back into Clarrie's life, bringing with him a shocking revelation...