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In 1913 Connie Reid marries wealthy Nottingham colliery owner Sir Clifford Chatterley but he returns from the Great War disabled and in a wheelchair. Connie is loyal but begins to feel alienated as he engages a nurse, Mrs Bolton, and excludes her from pit business. Despite his desire for an heir his impotency results in a lack of sexual activity and Connie is drawn to handsome Oliver Mellors, the plain-spoken former miner her husband has engaged as his game-keeper and who represents the passion she craves. They embark upon a physical affair in Oliver's cottage but are discovered and betrayed by Mrs Bolton. Connie, now carrying Oliver's child, must choose between a pampered but joyless existence with her husband or an uncertain future with the man she has come to love.

In 1994 in South Africa, the daughter of a multiracial couple is kidnapped. She escapes and, as an adult, becomes a detective. Reyka Gama uses her skills to raise her child and solve mysteries.

Divorcee Gemma finds herself attracted to the roguish charm of Billy, a friend of her son. With her ex hanging around and showing off his new lady, can she resist?

Criminal profiler Reyka is summoned to a hearing to approve an abductor's parole application to be set free after twenty years of incarceration.

Reyka and the police investigate the six decomposed bodies found in the cane fields.

Reyka and her team investigate links between Macingwane and the Msomi royal household, and it starts to feel as though everyone in the region has links to the dead bodies.

A soil sample taken from the cane fields and it's disappearance starts to draw suspicion onto the police team and especially their boss, Hector Zwane.

Nandi is attacked by the killer and is a hair breath away from losing her life.

Reyka and Samuel are filled with guilt as they start to piece together links between a new harrowing incident and their cane filed killer case.

Reyka re-enacts the shooting of Soda and is shocked to discover that all the evidence leads back to one suspect close to her.

Reyka is captured by a ruthless serial killer who is about to play out his murderous MO on her.

Gemma Jones is a divorcee struggling to bring up her two little daughters whilst ex-husband Jason has found a glamorous if vacuous younger partner Inca.Things improve for Gemma when the charming Tom,another single parent,asks her out for a date,which goes well,despite her nervousness. At the same time her womanizing son Alfie returns from a round the world trip with his sensible friend Billy,whom Jason mistakes for Gemma's toy boy. Though Gemma sees Billy wearing only a towel as he prepares to shower nothing happens between them.

The school is holding its parents' evening and Billy helps Gemma with her contribution to the cake stall,which pales beside Tom's magnificent offering. Nor is she pleased that Jason has let their girls dye their hair and takes lightly reports of daughter Charlotte's overly boisterous behaviour. When Charlotte's sister Jess gets stage fright over the school play Billy gives her the confidence to go on and Gemma gratefully kisses him. They are seen by an irate Alfie who starts a fight during the play which Tom breaks up before asking Gemma on a second date. She accepts but is equally attracted,if not more so,to Billy.

Gemma makes lazy Alfie work with his father on his grocery van whilst she accepts Tom's invitation to join his self defence classes. Inca is also keen to attend and when Jason interrupts she floors him and sits on his chest and only releases him after he has promised to marry him. Tom suggests Billy become his lodger and Billy takes up the offer but after one night away Gemma is already missing him.

It's Alfie's birthday and,despite Jason's disapproval, Gemma lets Tom escort her to the party at the bar where Billy is now working. Tom helps Gemma's friend Fran pick up an object of desire whilst Billy is roped in to help Alfie pull a pair of vacuous girls and Gemma encourages him. Inca cancels the wedding on learning that Jason is not fully divorced from Gemma and kicks him out. His unannounced arrival at Gemma's means that she is unable to spend the night with Tom - or Billy.

Six months later things are going well for Reyka. She is working out of new police station and she met a guy.

After a second murder victim turns up at Lover's Lane, investigators wrongly think it's the same perpetrator. But Reyka knows the missing shoes link the killings.

When the ambush goes wrong, the killer flees. Reyka starts piecing together a profile using clues like missing shoes.

Reyka finds herself at the centre of an investigation after a man drowns in her bed. She needs Elsa's support as the walls close in.

Portia's promise ring connects Speelman to the investigation. He goes into hiding but draws attention.

Speelman slips through Reyka's fingers, but has to seek refuge in the harbour underworld. In the meantime, Reyka draws links between the cobber shop and Lover's Lane murders, but struggles to unlock the killer's identity.

Reyka is caught between helping Jodie find her mother, issues with Elsa, and connecting the dots in her murky past. Speelman assumes a false identity and tries to flee the country. In addition, Tanner makes a horrifying discovery.

A brutal murder in Lovers' Lane leads Reyka to become interested in prostitution and track down Jodie's mother; Speelman persuades Jodie to join him on the boat and prepares to leave the country for Scotland.