On the brink of a disastrous marriage arranged by her widower father, Lord Craigiehall, Nicola Templeton rebels. She flees to Edinburgh to take refuge with her sister Charlotte and her husband,...

Glasgow is a city teeming with immigrants, rich and poor, schemers and victims alike. And the McKennas, fresh from Ireland, have no intention of being victims. When they arrive on Cissie...

Glasgow in the 1920s. World War I ended well for the Franklins, prosperous Clydeside shipbuilders.

But trouble is brewing behind their respectable façade: Lindsay Franklin...

The Glasgow of the 1930s, and Lizzie Conway has clawed her way out of the Gorbals slums despite a crippling burden of a debt left by her husband. She would do anything to protect Polly, Babs and...

At eighteen, Arthur Franklin’s cosseted daughter, Lindsay, has left her Glasgow school and finds her role as a marriageable young lady more than agreeable. And the source of the family’s...

Susanne Thorne is an orphan of means – which is why her Aunt Bette is willing to welcome the young heiress into her home in far-away Scotland, and to encourage a friendship with her handsome...

Servant girl Betsy McBride thinks she has as much right as any girl to set her cap at Tom Brodie, the most dashing young man in the district. When her master asks her to help out the Brodie family...

As Glasgow waits for enemy bombers to reach Clydeside and the German invasion to begin, Lizzie Conway’s daughters throw themselves wholeheartedly into the war effort and eagerly accept their...