Dispossessed of crown and kingdom, crushed and routed at the grim Battle of Worcester, the young Charles II is forced to flee for his life. Out of the heat of battle, the outlaw King and his tiny...

When Cully Stewart died, his family were devastated. For without Cully’s steadfast spirit, Meg, his wife, and their children all found that life was much more difficult.Meg, lonely and...

When paratrooper Corporal Reith Douglas received a head injury in Greece during the Second World War, he might well have anticipated a hero’s welcome on his return home. But it would have helped...

For Amelia and her brothers and sisters, the grim past which their mother Emily had endured seemed very far away. As pretty as a picture, and now learning to be a teacher in York, Amelia looked...

It is 1914, and Christabel Montgomery is happily preparing for her wedding when she receives the shattering news that her fiancé has been drowned at sea. Heartbroken, she tries to piece her life...

Young Charlotte Mortimer is content with her lot. She loves her job teaching the poor and destitute in the local school and is happy with her strong, steadfast fiancé Luke.

Then, one...

Life in the Glasgow tenements was never easy, but life for Beth is becoming increasingly harsh. In wartime, everyone grabs what brief happiness they can and, in Beth's case, she finds herself...

When the new Lady Cardross begins to fill her days with fashion and frivolity, the Earl has to wonder whether she did really only marry him for his money, as his family so helpfully suggests. And...

Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by irascible Lord Darracott. The recent drowning of his eldest son has done nothing to improve his temper. For now he must send for the...

Sir Waldo Hawkridge, wealthy, handsome, eligible, illustrious, and known as The Nonesuch for his athletic prowess, believes he is past the age of falling in love. But when he comes north to...

It is 1938, and little Josie Flynn is sitting at the top of the stairs outside her attic room in Liverpool, her beautiful prostitute mother nearby. She doesn’t know that her long and often...

The Duchess of Richmond’s ball - Brussels, June 15th, 1815 - the eve of Waterloo. There is still time for romance, for the lovely, shocking young widow, Lady Barbara Childe, to trifle with...

Before World War II has even been officially declared, ten-year-old Hazel Morgan and her eight-year-old brother Peter are evacuated, leaving London for the safety of the Sussex countryside.With...

Handsome, wealthy and charismatic, Luke Hammond should have the world at his feet. Instead, he is immersed in a double tragedy which has rocked the quiet town of Blackburn. Luke’s only respite...

The shy young Duke of Sale has never known his parents. Instead, his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware or Gilly for short has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling from his uncle...