1875. Emerald Winter has lived a privileged life with her parents & her younger sister Abigail in the stately Astley House. But
...When her loving but strict parents pass away, twenty-one-year-old Megan is left penniless & alone. However, for the first time
...Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia, still grieving her father's recent death.
She's not intending to
...Eighteen-year-old seamstress Kathryn Flynn lives in Whitechapel, London, struggling to support her widowed mother & younger
...Agnes Sullivan is 15 when she is found crying in the lane near her parent's farm by her younger brother Tom. She's been attacked & abandoned. Heartbroken, she is forced to leave her family & home. Tom, barely a teenager himself, decides the attacker must pay for his actions. Annie flees to Birmingham, but the safe haven she's been promised turns out to be too dangerous to stay for too long. With few options she's given a helping hand by a person she'd never even spoken to from her past life. Will World War One ruin her precarious hopes for the future? & will she ever see any of her family again?