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The unloved child, Billy Heron, with a new identity of Sir Ralph Barnet, returns to Tyneside where his mother, Dee Heron, is living a life of drudgery at stately Mrs Hammond's. He hopes to transform the lives of all his family with the wealth he has accrued over his seven years' absence and he comes with a wife, Sophia of the Spanish aristocracy, and a son, Mateo, whom he loves with a passion. But the outcome is not the triumph he visualised. ...

Dione Sheradon's young love turns to bitter hatred when her betrothed, army officer Sir Ralph Barnet, deserts her on her father's bankruptcy. Sure she is pregnant and despairing of her suicidal parents, she wanders into the arms of simple Jack Heron, a wagon driver for Wylam pit. They are swiftly married and he believes the child is his.Dione has to become Dee Heron, living in a one-room house with her in-laws and never being quite accepted am...

Lesson of Love is a moving and candid story of a relationship between a mother and daughter in the face of life-changing illness.Prue Phillipson's first-person account is interspersed with diary excerpts and documents the difficult yet rewarding experience of caring for a mother with dementia. This unflinchingly honest story details the various stages of the illness and how Prue coped whilst her mother changed, becoming ever more distant.Prue ...

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In a castle in Yorkshire a baronet with a dark secret has become obsessed with the idea of leaving his castle in a state of perfection for his handsome heir.

What if the one you love is also the one you are sworn to kill? Arabella 'Bel' Horden is a mischievous, pugnacious thirteen-year-old. The youngest daughter of a Northumbrian squire and magistrate, she is wracked by guilt after a careless haystack fire leads to the wrongful hanging of an English army deserter. Sent to boarding school in Yorkshire after another unbecoming act of disobedience, Bel blossoms into a beautiful and quick-witted young ...

It is 1700 and Deborah Horden jumps at the chance to escape her unexciting life at Horden Hall in Northumberland and travel to Europe with her brother when he and his French wife go to visit her family. Although thrilled by every new experience and with eyes open for an interesting man Deborah becomes worried that her brother might be drawn into a Jacobite rebellion hatching on French soil. A mysterious Monsieur le Vent flirts with her but she...

There are only three survivors of a shipwreck off the Scottish Island of Stroma following one of the clearances of a highland glen in 1819. They are two very new babies and an eleven-year-old boy, Rory-Beag, sharp of memory but unable to speak due to a deformity from birth. He is cared for by a minister on the mainland of Caithness and the babies, assumed to be twins, are sent away and adopted by a couple from distant Northumberland, where the...

What can a young man of fifteen do when he is told by his mother that the three cousins he is about to meet all want to marry him? Daniel Wilson Horden has arrived in London with his parents from their home in Northumberland on the very day of King Charles II's triumphant return to his capital. Receiving his own personal wave from the king, Daniel longs only to serve him, but first he must keep at bay the threat of marriage. His two French cou...

There are only three survivors of a shipwreck off the Scottish Island of Stroma following one of the clearances of a highland glen in 1819. They are two very new babies and an eleven-year-old boy, Rory-Beag, sharp of memory but unable to speak due to a deformity from birth. He is cared for by a minister on the mainland of Caithness and the babies, assumed to be twins, are sent away and adopted by a couple from distant Northumberland, where the...