Due to a terrible event that would change her life forever Amelia Phillips, known as Missy, is sent away from England by her parents to live in New Zealand in a tiny place called Greytown. The journey on the sailing ship almost finishes her off before she even reaches New Zealand but she survives and goes on a journey that encompasses family secrets, trials and triumphs and the love of God, her guardians and a man in her life that changes the generations to come.