As the Storm Clouds Gather

May 1915. Nineteen-year-old Isle Marie Stahl experiences tragedy travelling on board the RMS Lusitania with her parents from New York to a new life in England when the ship is sunk by a German U-boat. Isle survives but is all alone. She distracts herself from the pain by becoming a nurse tending to the casualties on the front line at Ypres. Meanwhile young Roland Hawkins is nursing his own grief when his father is caught up in the Black Tom explosion in New York Harbour. Full of anger he quietly sets off for England and straight to a recruiting station. Soon he is on the front line himself determined to get his revenge. The Belgian battlefields of the Great War will bring Isle and Roland together. But as the storm clouds grow ever darker can they find love and comfort in one another?