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An ordinary London housewife’s quiet strength helps her family endure the trials of the Second World War. Miriam Baxter may see herself as unremarkable, but her unwavering determination, faith, and courage carry her and her family through the darkest days of the Second World War. As London endures relentless bombing and uncertainty, Miriam’s world revolves around her children, her parents, and her three sisters. In a time when survival is uncertain and hope fragile, it is the strength of family and quiet resilience that keep them going. There are no dramatic twists or secrets here—...

The Time Girl Trilogy — Boxed Set Synopsis She lost her leg. Then her century. And time isn’t finished with her yet. Luna is a fierce, determined 23‑year‑old Londoner whose life is defined by grit, music, and marathon training—until a collision on Victoria Embankment hurls her from 2018 into the brutal, unyielding world of Victorian London. In 1871, she must fight to survive in a society that refuses to see her, let alone accept a disabled woman with a modern voice and a mind of her own. But time travel leaves scars. Dragged back to the present, Luna can’t outrun the guilt, ...

London is burning—and so are the old certainties. As the Blitz begins, one family must fight to hold on to each other, and to everything that makes life worth living. Book Two in the Newgate Street saga. As war tightens its grip on London, Maud Morrow must summon all her strength to protect her ever-growing family. With a new grandchild in her arms and the daily threat of bombings overhead, the year 1940 demands more from her than ever before. Navigating the black market, ration books, and nightly air raids, Maud finds herself tested by the next generation—young people pushing ...

In the fourth year of a brutal war, the Morrow family faces heartbreaking changes and unrelenting hardships — yet amid loss and despair, moments of hope and love flicker, proving that even the darkest times cannot extinguish the human spirit. As the war stretches on into its fourth year, Maud begins to understand that the physical horrors and disappointments of living through global conflict extend far beyond death alone. Despondency and demoralising events arise closer to home, as her two children change in ways she never could have imagined. Maud often wonders whether these tragedies ...

1939. Britain is on the brink of war, and Alice Conyngham’s life is about to change forever. The arrival of government officials, soldiers, and the Women’s Land Army on her estate signals the start of a new and uncertain era. Her staff leave for new duties, her stables are requisitioned, and Alice must find ways to protect her home, her beloved horses, and the fragile order of her world. Amid the upheaval, she finds unexpected companionship in Brantley Fuller, her late husband’s closest friend, whose presence stirs both comfort and desire. As the war encroaches, Alice must navigate ...

A wounded detective. A seaside town hiding dark secrets. And a family where betrayal runs deeper than anyone dares imagine. When Mr Cropper—a one-legged, one-eyed, and rather disreputable London private investigator—arrives in the summer of 1955 in Torquay, he allows locals to believe he’s a tourist looking to invest in business. But beneath his facade, Cropper has been hired by the young and attractive Dr April Fox to investigate the suspicious death of her elderly father, who seemed to have taken his own life, and the shocking near-burial of her mother. As Cropper digs deeper into ...

What if winning the lottery didn’t bring freedom—but a fight to keep your family, your identity, and your sanity? Follow Edith Aveling’s gripping journey as sudden wealth turns her quiet life upside down and forces her to confront the price of fortune. What would you do if you suddenly won £137 million? For Edith Aveling, a humble South London domestic worker, winning that staggering sum was anything but a blessing. Having never bought a lottery ticket before, she cautiously chose to remain anonymous, hoping to shield herself and her family from the storm that followed. But money ...

A fragile young man. A woman out of time. A story that spirals into something far more disturbing. 1965. Jack Webber is eighteen, awkward, and ailing—physically from pneumonia, emotionally from years of abuse and neglect. Dispatched to the brooding Kelynek House on the far edge of Cornwall to recover, he finds himself immersed in silence, secrets, and the enigmatic presence of his uncle’s young wife, Elowen, his young wife, a passionless, yet mysterious native of the area. But when Jack stumbles upon a reclusive children’s author named Jacqueline—living alone in a cliffside cottage ...

A ghostly Christmas tale of old wounds, long-kept secrets, and the magic of a second chance. Victorian London, 1881. In a grand but fading townhouse, two elderly spinster sisters live under the same roof—without having spoken a word to each other for fifty years. Their silence, born from a youthful tragedy, has become the stuff of local legend. No one—not even their closest friends—knows the truth behind their bitter rift. But on Christmas Eve, as the gaslights flicker and snow falls silently across the city, something stirs within the walls of their ancestral home. A ghostly presence...

Even in absence, Miriam’s spirit remains the heart of her family. December 2009. Snow blankets East London in one of the harshest winters in memory. In the old family house once shared by Miriam, Roy, and Rafa, preparations for Christmas are underway. Miriam’s youngest daughter, Florence, now middle-aged, bustles to hold the family together alongside her twin daughters, Faith and Betty—both grown, headstrong, and carrying their own burdens. As the festive season unfolds, the past surfaces: an emotional visit to Rafa in a care home, a few family disasters, and a looming divorce. ...

A family legacy of madness, a miraculous invention, and a house shadowed by secrets—can Mary break free before Bleak House consumes her? In 1975, Mary Park, the privileged yet overwhelmed daughter of an aristocratic family, struggles beneath the weight of domestic chaos, a fracturing marriage, and the shadow of a rebellious teenage daughter caught in drugs. Haunted by the legacy of cruel, paranoid female ancestors, Mary lives under the oppressive gloom of her family’s London home—an atmosphere thick with unease and the feeling of unseen eyes watching the vulnerable. Her world shifts ...

Angela Tenneb has no limits—and no conscience She doesn’t just break the rules. She rewrites them. Angela Tenneb is beautiful, brutal—and utterly untouchable. Drug dealer. Addict. Extortionist. She controls her London streets with charm and cruelty in equal measure, pushing boundaries and people to their limits. But she wasn’t always like this. As a child, Angela had a twin sister and a loving home—until one scorching summer afternoon in the 1990s changed everything. That day, she came home from school to find her mother in a room soaked with blood, laughing. Now it’s 2013, and ...

TIME GIRL, a seven book series. Book four. She thought rescuing Rose would bring peace. But time is a trickster—and Mr Quick is playing his longest game yet. She wants to save the child she left behind—but time doesn’t play fair. Luna is struggling. Only her closest friend, Sophia, truly understands what she’s endured—and even she cannot grasp the full extent of the changes Luna has suffered. Mr Quick, the enigmatic timekeeper, has done something to her thoughts. His influence runs deep. And no matter how hard she tries, Luna cannot forget Rose—the vulnerable Victorian child she...

In war-torn East London, the Atwall family’s secrets simmer beneath the roof of The Hive, a lonely Georgian house. Twin sisters, bound by tragedy, face a dark reckoning when Emerson Farthingale, a scheming and immoral son of a bishop, arrives, determined to expose their hidden truths at any cost. A gripping family saga of mystery and wartime suspense. Set against the backdrop of war-torn East London, The Atwall Twins follows the saga of a family bound by secrets and tragedy. At the heart of Poplar High Street stands The Hive, a lonely Gothic Georgian house steeped in history and shadowed ...

Seven Sisters: Raised by nuns after being cast out by her family because of her deformities, a girl searches for identity, belonging, and love under the stars. In late 1960s Devon, a baby girl is born with polydactyly — extra fingers that mark her as different from the first breath she takes and with even more deformities. Ashamed, her wealthy father gives her away to nuns to die. But the child survives. Raised by nuns in a convent, her childhood is shaped by silence, structure, and the ache of abandonment. Yet within that cloistered world, she finds moments of wonder — and a friendship...

A devoted mother’s life is shattered by one theft. Imprisoned in Holloway in 1938, she must survive a harsh world of loss, fear, and unexpected strength. When Miriam, a devoted housewife and mother, is sentenced to Holloway, the infamous women’s prison in North London, she enters a world of harsh rules, unforgiving guards, and unfamiliar inmates. Stripped of her freedom and separated from her family, Miriam must find the strength to survive a grim environment few ever escape unchanged. Written with painstaking detail from authentic historical records, A Year In Holloway reveals the ...

Two women. One prison. A friendship that defies everything they were taught to believe. In 1902, the soot-stained heart of North London beats with the quiet despair of Holloway Prison—recently transformed into a women-only institution. Inside its walls, and in the shadow it casts, two women live worlds apart. Victoria Wood is elegant, educated, and newly married—but her perfect life has shattered in a way she cannot yet speak aloud. Margaret Bull scrapes by as a cleaner, her name forever tainted by the legacy of her infamous mother: Mary Ann Cotton, England’s most prolific female ...

TIME GIRL, a seven book series. Part 2. You can run from the past… until it drags you back. Luna must return to 1872—and this time, she’s not alone. Some mistakes echo across centuries. Luna must return to fix hers—even if it breaks her. Months after surviving 1871, Luna is back in her own time—but not whole. Haunted by guilt, exhausted by anxiety, and tormented by the consequences of the choices she left behind, she knows she must return to Victorian London to set things right. This time, her best friend Sophia insists on coming with her. But the past is no safer the second time ...

Ruth Ellis. The last woman hanged in Britain. But what if she hadn’t been? In this deeply moving reimagining of Ruth’s life, here is not her final chapter. From prison gates to quiet fields, gallery walls to private heartbreaks, Ruth must navigate the long shadow of the past while trying to shape a future history never allowed her. Based on meticulous research and emotional truth, this novel offers not an alternative verdict, but an alternative life — one of survival, sorrow, and the possibility of redemption. A powerful act of literary resurrection. A story not of what was, but what ...

She was meant to hang. History had already made up its mind. But what if her story had taken a different turn? Edith Thompson: A Life Lived is a bold reimagining of one of the most sensational scandals of 1920s England — the Thompson and Bywaters affair. In this poignant and emotionally resonant novel, Edith is granted the future she never had. Instead of the noose, she finds a second chance at life. A child. A new husband. A career. As the decades unfold, Edith’s life weaves through the Great Depression, the Second World War, and beyond — a journey marked by joy, grief, laughter, and...