Maddie Renshaw is 20 and lives a lonely life working with James her harshly domineering father on their crumbling, isolated sheep farm Scapegoat, high on the Yorkshire moors. Maddie's only joy is Duster her mare and the long, exhilarating rides t...
Eva Bower, away from her beloved Yorkshire home, embarks on her university career with a characteristic mixture of bluntness and vivacity, winning herself loyal friends and an implacable enemy. Free to decide her own future, Eva finds her flair for b...
The story opens with the funeral of Max and Maddie Bower and moves on to reveal the fortunes of the family they leave behind. The heroine of the story, 22 year-old Leah, seeking independence, refuses to work any longer in her mother's business and mo...
Jericho Farm, high in the Pennines, has been in the Hemingway family for generations. Although life on the farm was hard, the place has a rugged compulsion for those who lived and worked there. But now James Hemingway was thinking of breaking wit...
Hawksmoor is set amid the brooding splendour of the Yorkshire moors, a prosperous Victorian town, its throbbing mills weaving wealth for the few. Cedric Moorhouse, its new and ambitious mayor, is anxious to impress the town’s most influential famil...
Ruth Steadman comes to a small village in the Yorkshire moors to do some research for a TV series. But she finds that the people of Jacob's Well seem bitterly hostile towards her.
What do they have to hide? Why is the vicar leaving, so full of hate...
Amity Lucas seeks to escape life's dreariness by accepting the post of companion to Regina Fairfax in the isolated manor of Mallory Keep. She could not have known beforehand that the Fairfax family is proud but doomed to madness, murder and disinheri...
When Fern Saxby arrived at Bradford to claim her inheritance she simply dismissed the strange feeling of familiarity that she felt, but was it more than deja vu that her betrothed had spoken of?
Perplexed by disturbing dreams which give her a power...
Losing her position as a sewing maid with Madame Barin, Garnet Appleby finds herself alone on the streets of London. Her present circumstances are a far cry from her genteel upbringing and she resolves that she will do anything to reverse her fortune...
In the early 1890s, in a small village in Siberia, a young man grows up with the phenomenal ability to see unknown things - and also to seduce any woman he desires. He makes his way to St Petersburg, where word spreads of his ability to heal sick and...
Who was he, this Colonel Thomas Blood? Troublemaker, Irish upstart, unscrupulous rogue, or one of the most loyal subjects Charles II could wish for? He certainly became notorious during the years of the Restoration for his conspiracies, intrigues and...
When lovely Topaz Birke discovers that she is with child, she sets out for England to find her lover, unaware of his true identity. It is only when she finds herself at the court of the newly restored monarch King Charles II that a dismayed Topaz rea...
As a child, Marie Louise, daughter of the Emperor of Austria, was taught by example and experience to loathe and fear Napoleon Bonaparte. When his Josephine fails to provide him with a son, however, Napoleon seeks a new wife, and the beautiful archdu...
Kidnapped on the streets of London, taken unconscious by coach to the great estate of Willerby and there held captive by the handsome but bitter man who claimed to be her guardian, beautiful Linnet Grey was almost convinced that she really was the ev...
May Turnbull had been born and raised in Cedar Street. When the chance came for her to better herself in Rose’s soft furnishing workroom, she seized it with everything she had. At home with her father crippled in a mine accident, a mother who kept ...
‘It was then she became aware that Mrs Blackstock was eyeing her with a thoughtful, faraway look, Joanna had a weird sensation that was being mentally taken apart and examined, bit by bit….’Suddenly left alone in the world, Joanna Forrest and h...
ISBN 978 0 900 123 53 5‘The whole idea is preposterous. One can’t marry a first cousin!’Particularly for cousins whose mothers have ignored each other for the best part of twenty years. Yet Amy Mallinson is bewildered by her deep feelings for h...
Two lonely children, neglected in their Victorian nursery form a tragic bond on the wild Yorkshire moors. While the dramas of life, death and madness swirl around their family, like smoke from the mill chimneys nearby, Constance and William cling tog...
MysteryLarge Print EditionTrying to escape an unhappy love affair, Pippa Korvak leaves Paris for Cambermere Hall, her fathers country house. But Cambermere doesnt prove to be the haven that she sought. A handsome journalist seems fiercely resolved to...
Yorkshire, 1812. The Industrial Revolution is sweeping the country, stirring up the Luddites, a movement set up to overthrow the tyrannical capitalists who are making life harsh for the workers in the woollen mills. In the town of Huddersfield, the l...
In the far-off 1950s, Irish shop girl Rosa Sheridan is seduced under the arches of Clondarra's village bridge. To escape from the stigma of being a fallen woman, she escapes to England, where she makes a new life for herself in Hawksmoor. But she can...
Lucy, the tavern wench born from the flames that destroyed her past, escapes from the the slums of Restoration London into the household of a merchant and his wife. Always true to her own fiery nature, Lucy rises like a phoenix from the ashes of her ...
Like his father before him, William, son of the Duke of Normandy, is determined to have what he wants out of life. But he will experience many struggles and be forced to make countless sacrifices before he can truly live up to the name of Conqueror....
The story of a beautiful moth who fluttered briefly near the candle of Henry VIII's brilliance, only to be consumed by the flame. Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne, could well have altered the course of English history. Fair and loving, devoid of ambition,...