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A young girl's tragic loss will shape her dreams and her future...1930 - Douro Valley, PortugalTwelve-year-old Catherine is watching the Rabalo race in Porto when the sound of a shot being fired changes her life forever.Her beloved mother, mistress for some years to Walter Shellard, a Bristol based wine and port merchant has received distressing news that her lover, Walter, has married a wealthy heiress. In her anguish she takes her own life, ...

The start of BRAND NEW SERIES from bestselling author of 'The Tobacco Girls' Lizzie LaneBristol 1936Jenny Crawford has resigned herself to a loveless marriage living hand to mouth with their two children. Like many others, husband Roy struggles to find work at the docks but a chance encounter turns the family's fortunes around.Not only does he get regular work but they are also allocated a council house on Coronation Close on the outskirts of ...

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A young girl's tragic loss will shape her dreams and her future...1930 - Douro Valley, PortugalTwelve-year-old Catherine is watching the Rabalo race in Porto when the sound of a shot being fired changes her life forever.Her beloved mother, mistress for some years to Walter Shellard, a Bristol based wine and port merchant has received distressing news that her lover, Walter, has married a wealthy heiress. In her anguish she takes her own life, ...

In the face of changing fortunes, the Strong family must unite to keep their wealth and status...or risk losing it all.As Cholera sweeps through the streets of Bristol, no one is immune. Blanche and her husband Conrad Heinkel, sugar merchant and master sugar baker, are devastated when their seven-year-old daughter Anne, is taken by the deadly disease.Lost in her own immense grief, her childhood sweetheart Tom Strong, is the only man who can he...

She must face the terror of war alone to survive...1939 - IndiaWhen headstrong Nadine Burton learns that the woman, she thought was her Indian Ayah was in fact her mother, she rebels against her father in a flamboyant display of disrespect and dares to dance with her two local best friends at a public party.Her father, local official, Roland Frederick Burton is furious. He arranges for her to be exiled from India and married off to Australian ...

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The first in an explosive series featuring the Strong family and a legacy of lies that leads to passion, love, murder and heartbreak...Barbados 1818One fateful night, a terrible tragedy occurs at the Strong family sugar plantation on the paradise island of Barbados. The Strong family quickly move to keep the shocking event a secret. But secrets can't stay hidden forever...Twenty-two years later Blanche Strong, the living, breathing proof of th...

The Strong family has survived against all odds, but their greatest test is still to come.After a seemingly endless labour, Horatia Strong is delighted to announce that she's given her husband, Tom, a much-needed son and heir to the entire Strong fortune. But the birth of the child is soon shrouded in secrets and Horatia will do anything to keep the truth from her husband - it could destroy the Strong family completely.Tom's enduring love for ...

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ALL NEW from the Tobacco GirlsBRISTOL 1943 and life for the Tobacco Girls isn't getting any easier...Bridget Milligan has donned a uniform and joined the nursing services where she becomes intrigued with the miracles of modern medicine. She's also torn between family loyalty, her new career and Lyndon O'Neill, the love of her life. Is it too impossible to hope that everything will come out right in the end?Phyllis Harvey is still serving in Ma...