Harrisons Way

Despite the Depression, the Richardsons enjoy a simple life on the Tasmanian coast in Harrisons Way, a small seaside community. Mary Richardson has to deal with the grief of her friends death in childbirth, but looking into the newborns eyes, she dares to hope that little Kathryns life will be happier. Love and romance bless Kathryns life when she meets Jim, an itinerant worker. But her happiness is tainted when she is among the victims of a brutal predator. Marys daughter, Frances, also falls prey to this monster. Can they find him in time to spare the other young women of the community?
Thirty years later, Frances and her family have moved into Hilltop View, the Richardson home. The peaceful surroundings have helped her to recover from a mothers worst nightmare, the unsolved disappearance of Steven, one of her sons. A series of bush fires that threaten Harrisons Way makes the hot summer seem even hotter. Are these the natural byproduct of the hot Tasmanian summersor is an arsonist at work?
In the days of a new millennium, Frances now faces life in a nursing home as she battles the scourge of dementia. Susanne, her widowed daughter, has challenges of her own with a new beau, who may not be all he seems. Frances, despite her fleeting grip on reality, cannot let the past hurts go. What happened to her son?