Sally Williams works in a milliner's salon, but her ambition is to own her own shop. When she delivers a hat to Lady Isabelle Lazenby, she becomes flustered by Lady Isabelle's handsome cousin, Charles Carey - but finds herself attracted to the footma...
Abigail Cookson, whose mother disappeared when she was a small child and whose father is the town drunk, thinks her life can only get better when she meets and falls in love with handsome sailor Joe. And when she gets a job at a large department stor...
When she is left destitute, Ellen Campbell embarks on a new life in Australia where she is to marry James, a man she has never met. Helping to nurse a sick passenger, Ellen meets and falls in love with Richard Gray, the ship's doctor. Should she hono...
Rebellious society girl Arabella Raynsford is leading a double life as a music hall singer, but to escape a possible scandal, she flees to Constantinople to join Florence Nightingale. Arabella's ambitious mother wants her to marry wealthy Irish lando...
When Jess refuses to have her disabled sister locked away, her employer turns them out of their cottage. They find unlikely sanctuary at a home for the mentally ill - the very place that Jess had vowed her sister would never enter. Jess finds herself...
Tilly Masters hopes to follow in her father's footsteps as the village blacksmith and is upset when he takes on an assistant. But she falls in love with Nathan and is devastated when he enlists and is sent to France. She vows to wait for him but her ...
Although she believes nothing can come of it, ladies' maid Daisy March is eagerly awaiting the return on leave of naval lieutenant Jack Davenport, the brother of her mistress Georgina. She hopes that he will defy his family and declare his love. But ...
Separated from her childhood sweetheart Adam, due to a family feud, Grace Brownlow agrees to marry the man chosen for her by her parents. But there are secrets in Thomas's past, as she discovers when she accompanies him back to India. Meanwhile, on h...
Celia has always wanted to work on the family farm but her father refuses to allow it, saying it is not woman’s work and she takes a job at the local printing works. When war comes and the farm hands join up, she hopes her father will relent. But i...
Aspiring actress Kelley Robinson mistakes infatuation for love when she falls for charismatic media celebrity Carl Roche. Despite the warnings of her friends, she believes his promises and moves in with him. But when she discovers how he has deceived...
Anna Grayson has been a dutiful, loyal, and obedient daughter her whole life, but her world is transformed when she meets the lively and outspoken Mitchell sisters, employees in her father's factory, who awaken her interest in the women's suffrage mo...
Orphan Ruby knows no other life than the Foundling Hospital where she was brought up. Sent to work as a kitchen maid for the wealthy Preston family her life hardly seems to have changed until she meets handsome policeman Jeremiah (Jerry) Locker. <...
Two years after the death of her husband, Joanne feels it's time for her to move forward. She takes on a new job archiving historical documents at Grayling Manor, which is being restored by Canadian heir Clive Grayling, and she moves house, to the Ne...
Returning to her Moscow apartment one bitterly cold day in 1937, Natalie Fisher finds the place trashed and her family gone. Like so many in Stalin’s Russia they have been arrested and probably killed. She has fallen in love with her second cous...
Due to a family feud, Grace has been separated from her childhood sweetheart, Adam, a poor fisherman. When he joins a team of deep sea divers and goes away, Grace, thinking he has deserted her, marries the man chosen for her by her parents. She accom...
Madeleine Shaw is desperate - desperate enough to pawn the precious locket left to her by her beloved grandmother. Her father has died suddenly leaving enormous debts and his former business partner, Ralph Newman, is demanding payment. If she marries...
Daisy's War is a historical romance set on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent during World War One. Daisy is too young to join the WAAFs like her glamorous sister Sylvia and opts instead to work in the NAAFI which serves the sailors and soldiers statione...
Life as a WAAF in wartime England is not as glamorous as Sylvia Bishop had anticipated, although in letters home she tries to keep up the pretence for her sister Daisy. Then she is posted to a new RAF station and her work becomes more interesting. Sh...
World War Two is coming to an end and Dora Bishop’s hopes are high for a return to normal life with her family around her. But even when peace is declared, everything is far from normal and the family have to adapt to a new way of life.They hav...
Nurse Claire Burton is shocked when she hears Aunt May’s dying words, ‘Your mother didn’t die, dear.’ She determines to find answers to the mystery that had hung over her all her life. She had always known that she was adopted...
Flora longs to fly ‘like a bird’, to escape from her humdrum life, to have adventures. But her future is mapped out for her. When she leaves school, she will go to work as a maid at the local Rectory. What else is there for a country girl...
The Williams family have been living on the hulks, derelict warships moored alongside Sheerness dockyard, homes for the dockyard workers and their families. Still grieving for her mother, Emily is determined to make a home for her father and siblings...
When Carrie Martin's family falls on hard times, she struggles to support her frail sister and inadequate father. While scavenging along the shoreline of the Thames for firewood, she stumbles over the unconscious body of a young man. As she nurses hi...
While the Great Plague rages through London, Hester dreams of her sailor sweetheart Jonathan, despite being promised in marriage to her father's friend - the odious Thomas Latham. The deaths of her mother and baby brother bring guilty relief when the...