Return of the Stranger — Reay Tannahill

A saga set in Edwardian Scotland, England and London, focusing on the return of a long-lost brother who sets the family cat among the pigeons.

Tassie Smith is only a child when a stranger appears on her mothers' doorstep claiming to have inherited the family house and fortune. It emerges that he is her long-vanished brother. But as her own life unfolds, it becomes apparent that there is much more to his brother, and that he has many powerful enemies, not least the man whom Tassie falls in love...