It has been 10 years since Tom Strong left Bristol, and the Strong family, a powerful dynasty whose wealth was founded on growing sugar and keeping slaves, want him back. New ways must be found to maintain the family's fortune, and Horatia Strong i...
Captain Tom Strong has married a woman he does not love. Horatia, his cousin by adoption, is now a powerful entrepreneur through her inheritance of a vast family fortune. But his respect for her is eclipsed by his enduring desire for Blanche, Horatia...
An enthralling saga set during the Second World War - Bristol, 1939. Feisty, hard-working Mary Anne Randall runs a pawnbroking business from the washhouse at the back of her terraced home to support her three children and drunken, abusive husband. Wh...
A richly evocative saga set between the wars - In the years following the First World War, the livelihood of the boatmen Beth Dawson has grown up among is threatened, and the workers union, led by Anthony Wesley, is stirring up trouble. Abigail Gateh...
The sequel to the popular Loving Enemies - As the Second World War rages, Mary Anne Randall is struggling to keep her family together. Then a mysterious lawyer appears with news of an unexpected legacy, which her estranged husband tries to keep from ...
This powerful novel set between the world wars on both sides of the English Channel encompasses both tragedy and triumph while exploring the perfidy of greed and lust juxtaposed against the determination to prevail and thrive.--"Booklist."...
A WINNER IN THE AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARDS. Beseiged by marauding Tartars and bombarded with plague dead bodies, the city of Caffa on the coast of the Crimea, is about to fall. The plague has devastated the population; bodies bob around in the ...
The Strong family are wealthy, arrogant, decadent, and ruthless, with a string of sugar plantations in Barbados, a stately home near Bristol, and ambitions to control the refining of sugar in that city. But in a single night, the actions of one gener...
The Second World War is now over and people must count the cost. Three women from very different backgrounds meet when they find themselves on Bristol Temple Meads station waiting for the return of their loved ones. Edna's fiance Colin comes home cri...