When Siona Llewelyn, ferryman on the River Swan, pulled an attempted suicide out of the water, he did not realise what the girl would come to mean to him and to his family For Nerys, with no friends or money, went to work in his home, cooking and cleaning for his seven sons and looking after his once more pregnant wife However, tragedy and conflict were to strike the Llewelyns and Nerys would find herself at the heart of the feuds and rivalries