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The year is 1928 and Annie Melville has been happily married for 11 years to Euan MacPherson. They have a 10 year old son, Ian, and a daughter, Lexie, from Annie's first marriage to Alex Melville. Annie's links to the past and Billy Dawson seemed to have weakened with the passing of time, but when Billy's daughter, Nancy, is threatened by her obsessive stepfather, Joe Cassiday, both Billy and Annie are forced together again and have to face th...

The Pepper Girls, Lexie and Nancy, have always had Annie Pepper and Billy Dawson to depend on for help and support, however, Annie and Billy have left Dundee and gone to Belfast, leaving their daughters to face life without them. The year is 1952 and Lexie is now a single mum while Nancy's marriage is crumbling around her ears. But fate doesn't care and when Bo McGhee, the father of Lexie's daughter, Rainbow, wants to adopt his daughter and ta...

It is 1947 and Annie and Billy Dawson are now married and have gone to Belfast to be with their son John Adams and his wife Mary. Annie had given birth to her illegitimate son in the Poor House in Belfast, without Billy knowing he was the father, and the child was adopted by a Dr Adams and his wife. But mother and son were reunited when John was told Annie was his mother and got in touch. But for Annie it was a bitter-sweet meeting as it had t...

The second world war is over and the people of Dundee are beginning to salvage what they can of their lives and rebuild their broken homes and families, but for Lexie and Nancy, the battle for their futures had just begun. For Lexie, coming home to Dundee and her old life of living at home with her mother, Annie and Annie's husband, Billy Dawson, filled her with horror. Having found independence when she enlisted in the Womens Auxiliary Air Fo...

Annie Melville thinks she finally has everything she wants: a loving husband with whom romance and babies is a real possibility, a good home, and the dangerous Billy Dawson out of her life for good. But, in an unforgiving age where women alone rely on the family circle to survive the perils of urban life, what happens when family drama threatens to tear he world apart? Almost as soon as they are married, Annie's new husband, Alex, a police se...

Set in the Jute Mills of old Dundee at the turn of the 20th Century, Annie Pepper and her sister Mary try to find some happiness, as they realise that it is the men in their lives who ultimately decide their fate. Having both fallen for the same man, who stole Annie's heart and her virginity before also bedding Mary, the story tracks the sisters journey from Northern Ireland to Dundee as they follow Billy Dawson across the water. But as the fa...

For Lexie Melville and Nancy Donnelly, life hadn't turned out quite as they had dreamed it would. Nancy was stuck in a loveless marriage and Lexie, at the age of 29, looked like being 'left on the shelf.' An 'auld maid' Nancy had called her. But for both women, in Dundee in Scotland in 1942, life began to take a turn for the better. World War 2 was changing everyones lives, men were conscripted to fight Hitler and the might of the German force...

When author Sandra Leigh Savage's husband committed suicide in 1997, she went into isolation for a year. In this memoir, she shares her journey from the grief she experienced to her vision of a great new life. Love Letters, a collection of letters begun in September 2010, provides a snapshot of Savage's sorrows, joys, and reflections. Through these vignettes, she says her good-byes, notes her thanks, and provides advice for those who may have ...

Callen Michaels and Andrew Manne first meet at a wedding in 1990 and fall madly in love. She is a freelance writer and artist. He is a stylist for a high-end fashion magazine in Vancouver, British Columbia. Seven years later, on March 30, 1997, Andrew commits suicide. Two days later, Callen is brutally raped. This is their tragic love story. But even after these two life-changing events, Callen is able to start over. This compelling novel i...

Annie Pepper is now in her mid forties and her daughter Lexie has just turned 17. Annie's late sister Mary, also had a daughter who is called Nancy and who is 19 years old. This book is their story of growing up in Dundee in the 1930's and, like their mothers before them, trying to find love and a better life in a city where poverty still reigns and happiness can still only be found with the support of the men in their lives. Lexie seems to be...

The year is 1962 and Elvis is King of Rock & Roll. Maisie Green and her best pal Chrissie Dalton are both sweet sixteen and ready to discover what their world, and particularly the boys in it, has to offer them.Working as Chocolate Packers in Keillers Sweet Factory in Dundee, Lizzie has secret ambitions to improve herself and her life. Not for her the lot of her fellow workers, she is going to be different. But, Maisie hasn't bargained on the ...

In the eyes of the world, Roger Lomax was a loving husband and father and a respected Hypnotherapist, but deep in his heart Roger nursed a secret. He lusted after young female flesh and the more unattainable it was, the more he wanted it. But, one day, a strange cat came into the life of Roger's dominated wife, Vanessa, and everything he had dreamt off began to fracture, including his plans for his daughter Sophie.