In 1890 the rough Western town of Whiskey Bend, Colorado, is no place for single women. The final straw for widow Pearl Parsons and young schoolteacher Hallie Wolcott is the assault on their...

When Ella Burton takes a job as a lowly cleaner at the glamorous Palace Theatre in Swansea, she is surprised by how quickly she takes to the place – it’s as if she was born for a life in the...

May’s second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown–Lacey is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her children find the colonel’s presence oppressive and leave home; Oliver to drift from one...

Captain John Staple's exploits in the Peninsula had earned him the sobriquet Crazy Jack amongst his fellows in the Dragoon Guards. Now home from Waterloo, life in peacetime is rather dull for the...

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...

When her father comes home from sea and sets up as a carrier at the Liverpool Docks, Patsy dreams of being a family again. But he is killed in an accident, and Patsy must keep the business going...

His feelings toward her were warm. She turned their conversation over and over in her mind, reading into every casual answer a double meaning, hints of a growing passion that were held in check....

When Gaynor's god-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she's certain she will never love again. But a young German soon helps her to forget her sorrows. Until, with the war...

It’s 1943. When Babs Scott loses her beloved parents in an air raid, she is left homeless and alone. The Land Army offers her a new life away from the bombed streets of Rotherhithe and, despite...

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...

Brodie Logan had thought her marriage to Colin was a match made in heaven. But now her once-loving husband is distant and unfriendly so she makes the life-changing decision to leave him. She moves...

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...

Anne and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a charming house. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll. Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and...

It seems as if there will be no need to find a husband for Diana, the fifth daughter of Charles Armitage, the hard-drinking huntsman and country vicar. For Diana shares her father's passion for...

Twins Tanwen and Donna Evans are as different as chalk and cheese. Tanwen is pretty, a bubbly extrovert – but selfish and as sharp as a needle. Donna is plain, placid and shy, although...