Published in 1940, Whiteoak Heritage chronicles the fortunes of the Whiteoak family after the Second World War. The drama continues at Jalna when Renny returns home to find his one-time love still unforgiving and his brother still involved with an older woman.

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Young Renny takes us even further back in the Whiteoak family saga to 1906. Renny, the young master of Jalna, is just eighteen. His twenty-year-old sister Meg is engaged to marry the young man next door, Maurice Vaughan Uncle Nick and Uncle Ernest, now in their fifties, have squandered their inheritances abroad on high living and reside again at Jalna. But the plot thickens further, when two outsiders join the mix: A gypsy woman, who seduces Renny, and a distant cousin from Ireland, who befriends Gran, moves into Jalna, and spies on the family…

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In WHITEOAKS OF JALNA, the chronicle of the Whiteoak family continues, with rivalries, tangled relationships, and secret love affairs. Grandmother Adeline dies at 101, and the family is shocked when sensitive young Finch inherits her fortune. Again, all the action takes place in or near the red-brick house that has a peculiar haunting power over every member of the family. Each book is a complete and satisfying story in its own right, but the Jalna series has proven itself to be addictive to generations of readers....