In Long Way Home, Lydia Middleton faces a bright future, secure in the knowledge that her childhood sweetheart, David Drayton, will one day be her husband. But when Mr. Middleton loses his fortune, an
A tale of family, love and betrayal is set in both 19th-century Yorkshire and America and focuses on the difficulty that poverty-driven immgration caused. By the author of Secrets of a Whitby Girl.
It is the early 19th century and times are hard. Ambition overrides family relationships, thrusting people into conflict that has far?reaching repercussions. And when the lives of two people, separate
At the age of eighteen, Alice Ware is pretty, charming and impetuous. Back home in Yorkshire at the start of a new century, she is determined to seize any fresh opportunities and experiences that come
Marie Newton is the daughter of the famous painter Arthur Newton, and she has inherited much of her father's skill. Luckily he is happy to encourage his daughter's talent and sends her to a prestigio
The year is 1850, and Susannah Charlesworth loves the estate and open air life of the North Lincolnshire Wolds. She stands to become a very rich woman, too—inheriting the estate, as well as her father
Sarah Brook has kept diaries for most of her life. Now?85 and at the end of her own journey, she allows her favorite great?niece Esther to read them. But while full of Sarah's thoughts, dreams, and fa
Scarborough, 1938. When Jane and Nell are brought together by a chance encounter, Jane, unhappy at home, sees an opportunity to escape when Nell invites her to visit her family in Lowestoft. However,
The Other Side of the River tells the story of Gennetta Turner, whose father owns a large jet-carving company. Competition between the companies is intense, and Mr. Turner devises a way of consolidati
When Britain declares war on Germany in 1939, Carolyn Maddison is still a schoolgirl. Her elder brother Alastair wastes no time in joining the RAF as a flying officer, and Carolyn decides that when sh
It is 1802, and when her beloved father dies, Lucy Mitchell's curiosity is fired by his last words, "the de Northbys owe you." Who are the de Northbys and why do they "owe" the Mitchells? Her mother s
Whitby, 1879. Following the death of her parents in the Tay Bridge disaster, twenty-three-year-old Lena Carnforth expects to inherit at least half of her father's thriving shipping and merchant busine
Whitby farmer, John Dugdale, is involved with a local band of smugglers, seeing it as an easy and harmless way of making money. But John is shocked when Mark Roper?his daughter Emma's childhood sweeth
