Charles Stoker, in 1910, is a brilliant young engineer and inventor with a wonderful career before him. Given a unique opportunity by the powerful Collick family to test his inventions and serve his country, he enlists in the Royal Flying Corps. In 1918, Major Stoker returns home to his wife and child, bones and dreams shattered by his experience and refusing any contact with his former life and colleagues.

Only after he is shockingly killed, eight years later, does the distraught Milly Stoker begin to discover the truth about her husband's war.

In 1928, still numbed by the loss of his father, their innocent son Charlie goes to college, where he is easily led into a student's life and a student's sins. When suddenly faced with an agonising crisis, however, like his father he tackles the problem head on... with devastating consequences.

Charles and Charlie is Book One of the Stoker Trilogy.