Following the death of Daniel Lawson, heir to the Lawson cattle empire on the majestic Marianne Station, the Lawson family is thrown into disarray as patriarch Colin seeks a new successor.

Colin’s daughter-in-law Emily Lawson steps up in the short term, but he holds her in contempt as a gold-digging cattle thief, while her husband Graham, Colin’s last surviving son, is a hopeless alcoholic.

Colin’s hopes are buoyed by the return of grandson Marshall Lawson, but Marshall has chosen a life away from his family’s toxic legacy with wild best mates Rich and Sharnie.

Emily and Graham’s daughter Susie has returned to Marianne and revels in newfound freedoms, but strikes up a relationship with Lachie, the son of one of Colin’s fiercest enemies, the mining magnate Sandra Kirby.

Meanwhile, vultures are circling the kingdom – including dangerous cattle baron Campbell Miller, Emily’s cattle thief brother Hank Hodge, ambitious Indigenous station owner Nolan Brannock and billionaire Sandra Kirby, who has her own secret scheme that could destroy the Lawson dynasty once and for all.

And unbeknownst to all of them, Elton, a strange mysterious drifter, has evidence that Daniel’s death may not have been an accident at all...