What can the Earl and Countess of Cumnor do to make their spirited twin daughters, the ladies Lucienne and Eustacia, conform to the rigid rules laid down by Victorian society? Bored by the attentions of a score of suitors fascinated by the rarity of ...
"You are a Mainwaring, my girl, and therefore endowed with plenty of courage and the stubbornness of twenty devils," Lord Cumnor tells his daughter as she embarks for the Crimea as one of Miss Nightingale's nurses. Lady Eustacia Mainwaring, acclai...
Rachel, good friend of Tess Mainwaring, has returned from the Crimean War to live with her aunt and uncle. The sudden death of her uncle leaves herself and her aunt destitute. They are offered the use of the old Dower house by Justin's parents the Ea...
Johanna Kemp was named Bird of Morning by the Aborigine women who delivered her. As a 'currency lass' - the freeborn daughter of a convict - she was part of the land, at one with the place that had breathed life into her. In their remote corner of Qu...