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 cousin Stephan, a talented violinist. She has just discovered she is pregnant and in despair goes to the British Embassy for help. There she meets diplomat, Lawrence Sinclair, who proposes marriage as the only way to get safely back to England. She acce...

Rebellious society girl Arabella Raynsford, terrified that her double life is about to be revealed, and to escape from her arranged marriage to rich Irish landowner Oswald Delaney, flees to the Crimea to join Florence Nightingale.With the connivance of her maid, Maisie, she has been leading a double life as popular music hall singer Bella Forde. She has also fallen in love with penniless engineer Nat Sloane, a match her ambitious mother will never agree to.She finds fulfill...

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 stationed in the dockyard and garrison with snacks, cigarettes and toiletries.She has vowed to stay true to Bob, her childhood sweetheart. But Bob is serving overseas and she fears he will not return. Enter tall handsome soldier Christopher, known...

Abigail Cookson, daughter of the town drunk, whose mother disappeared when she was only seven, struggles to rise above the gossip and her father's abuse. When she falls in love with handsome sailor Joe, she thinks her life has taken a turn for the better. Her job in a local department store and friendship with fellow employee Daisy set the seal on this new phase of her life. But Joe is off to sea and Abby's employer, a pillar of the local chapel, turns out to be not so respectable as she t...

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 accompanies her new husband to India but soon learns that there are secrets in his past. Adam also travels to India with the diving team and hopes to see Grace, telling himself he just wants reassurance that she is well and happy.But ...

Tilly Masters loves her work as assistant blacksmith to her father despite the disapproval of her aunt who has ambitions for her beyond their little Sussex village. When Ben Masters takes on an apprentice Tilly is upset, thinking Nathan will take over. As they work alongside each other, she gradually falls in love with him and is devastated when he joins the Army and is sent to France to care for the horses on the Western Front.When her father dies and she gets the dreadful news th...

Rosemary Turner longs to leave the confines of her small Norfolk Village to engage in war work. But since the death of her mother, she has felt duty bound to stay at home to care for her father and help him with his parish duties.She meets Army Lieutenant Simon Spencer who is on convalescent leave after being wounded in the Dunkirk evacuation. He has come to the village with news of Rosemary's brother who he met at Dunkirk. She is immediately attracted to him but realizes she is un...

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 it is too late as her boss has taken on sensitive work for the Ministry of Information and Celia has to stay on at her job having signed the Official Secrets Act.Romance blossoms when she meets her brother Edgar's RAF friend, Matthew. But ...

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. During their brief meetings love blossoms until Ruby is assaulted by Oliver Preston, the son of the house, and finds herself pregnant.Despite her hopes and dreams she realizes there can be no future for her with Jerry. It seems things canno...

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. She is put in the Photo Intelligence unit and becomes very good at her job. Frustratingly, she cannot tell Daisy or anyone else what that entails as she has had to sign the Official Secrets Act.Her secret job is not the only thing that in...

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 in a small Norfolk village? When her parents’ farm is sold, along with other farms in the area, speculation is rife. Will there be an aerodrome and will Flora get the chance to get close to her beloved aircraft? When the secret is revealed, Flora is disap...

Ladies' maid Daisy March is eagerly awaiting the return on leave of her employer's son, Naval Lieutenant Jack Davenport. Surely this time he will defy his family and declare his love for her. But it is not to be and she is accused of stealing and summarily dismissed.When she takes up nursing on the outbreak of World War One she is dismayed to discover that Jack's sister, Georgina is also among the new recruits.They are posted to Malta where Daisy hopes to be reunited with J...