Society heiress: Sarah Langley came to New South Wales to get away from her stifling English home. But she didn't expect to mix with transported felons... Social outcast: Alan Kerr, an unjustly disgraced doctor, spends all his energy helping Sydney's poor. He has no time for silly society women! ...
When Miss Hester Waring found herself destitute and near total starvation, her rescue came from an unlikely source - Mr Tom Dilhorne, an ex-convict and now the richest man in Sydney, who needed a lady for a wife. Hester was undoubtedly a lady...
Jack Dilhorne was in Washington DC on business just as the war was being declared between the North and South states. It was not the best of times to meet someone as intriguing as Marietta Hope. But they had an enemy who could inflict much damage on their growing love...
He was lonely. At first he had difficulty in identifying what was wrong with him. Before he had gone to the Territory he had been a gregarious boy who would rather be with people than on his own; afterwards he had become solitary, a man who walked by himself, a man with many acquaintances, but fe...
‘I really don’t want to leave you, Mama. You know how much I dislike staying with Violet—and how much she dislikes having me.’ She was staring through the window of the small dining room in her mother’s cottage in Somerset. Her mother, the widow of the late Lord Rainsborough, elegantly dressed in...
‘Yes, Great-Aunt,’ croaked Ned, ‘but make it short, please. I’ve a monstrous bad head on me.’ ‘So you should have,’ she told him severely. ‘Arriving home at five in the morning and disturbing the sleep of the whole house with your drunken nonsense. If you can’t behave any better than that, I shal...