Lally Fraser, widowed at twenty, seeks comfort with dashing young mill owner Roly Sinclair. But when she finds she is expecting his baby, she turns to his dour brother Harry for help. Secretly in love with her, Harry offers her marriage. Roly, though, is anything but pleased. Threatening scandal ...
From the age of nine, Nancy Brody knew she wanted to save her sisters from the life of prostitution that plagued their mother. She finds them jobs and becomes a manufacturer herself, but there are many more obstacles the brave young girl must face before she can find true happiness.
He was murmuring something, she couldn’t make it out, but with a breathless gasp she burrowed herself deeper and deeper into him, her head thrown back as his lips travelled along her jaw line and down her throat.She did not wait for him to help her but began to unbutton the bodice of her dress, a...
"Don't . . . don't . . ."“How can I help it, Reed? I've . . . been so . . . happy . . . meeting you again up here. It was so . . . unexpected. I did not allow myself to think about what was to happen tomorrow, or next week. It was enough to just be with you, to touch you and hear you speak. I bli...
She was questioning every one of them about a certain Captain Charlie Summers, though they were sorry to see the disappointment on her face when they sadly shook their heads since they would have liked nothing better than to help her. ‘The 19th Battalion, the King’s Liverpool Regiment,’ she repea...
It sounded quite amazingly like a wounded beast, hurt beyond endurance but still lethally dangerous as it surged dramatically close to the lip of the banked track. It would go over, they were convinced, leaping up into the air, hurtling beyond its own seeming ability to fly but when the driver of...
There is something strange here and I will not go away, as you say I must, until you have told me what it is. I must apologise for my obstinacy but . . . well, she will have told you, Tessa and I are very much in love. I am not a boy, madam, in the first flush of calf love but a man of nearly thi...