In the midst of World War II, the Yorkshire veterinarian muses on past adventures through the Yorkshire dales, visiting with old friends and introducing scores of new characters--both human and animal.

Ruby Lennox is conceived to the twelve strokes of her great-grandmother's clock. Born in her father's absense (he's courting a stranger at the Dog and Hare), she is delivered under the new reign of Queen Elizabeth II by an angry doctor late for dinner. Beginning as a cluster of cells in her mother's womb, Ruby narrates the epic tale of her life and all the lives that led to it. Many end in death, as lives tend to - her family has a knack for getting...

When nude pictures of Chief Constable Jeremiah Riddle's teenage daughter turn up on a pornographic website, he turns to his rival, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks to find the man who took the pictures.

Heathcliff comes to the brooding mansion, "Wuthering Heights," on the isolated moors of England as an orphan child. He and Catherine Earnshaw fall in love. The love and hate between Catherine and Heathcliff is one of the main themes. Not a typical romance novel--it has both dark and brilliant moments.