In 1851 seventeen-year-old Erica Curtis and her two older brothers visit the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. After seeing the illustrated trinket and tobacco boxes on display at the Crystal Palace, Erica is keen to make them instead of the clay pipes ...
Historical RomanceLarge Print EditionLeft destitute by her fathers death in a hunting accident, Kendra Hollis is working as a companion until handsome and daring Pel Devereux enters her life. They marry and leave for America, where she helps run the ...
Gina Marsh makes a sudden decision to holiday in Spain with friends. There she meets two young doctors, and a new life begins. She finds romance, but is it with Bill or with Rod? What lies behind Rod's reticent manner, and what does he seek so earnes...
Young Mollie Paget, a servant girl in a grand but gloomy mansion called Beverley House, is to leave her old life behind, and move to London to help her Aunt Nell run a clothing shop, and embrace the burgeoning fashion world.
Shortly before she leav...
Gabrielle is the first member of her family to defy their tyrannical grandmother -- and live. Notorious for her ruthless cruelty, Hesther Quantock is universally loathed and feared, particularly by other seamen who run the shipping lines between Engl...
Visiting his unhappy childhood home in Ireland, Ross Ferris finds bitter memories still too fresh, so he seeks, instead, the lively company of his cousins at Killorglin, site of the Puck Fair. There, a chance encounter with the charismatic pedlar Ros...
There has been no romance in Helen Pattison's life for some time, and feeling she is in a rut she decides to change her job. With the help of her vivacious Aunt Chloe, Helen opens a secretarial agency and also starts a club for lonely people. Helen f...