The House in Dormer Forest

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In the depths of Dormer Forest, nestling in a valley, lies Dormer Old House, inhabited by the Drake family: Solomon and Rachael with their four grown children: intense, idealistic Jasper, Ruby, pretty but silly, black-eyed Peter, and the odd one out, Amber, a girl with a genius for loving - and laughing. There too lives cousin Catherine of the slanting eyes, whose pleasure it is to ensnare men's hearts. Brooding over all is the great matriarch, Grandmother Velindre, with her religious texts and reprimands, her beady eye ever upon the five young people in search of love and happiness. As the fate of each unfolds, it is Amber who emerges triumphant: one still June morning, she is found under a blossom tree by a strange and noble man...