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An Orphan's Journey by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1874.Growing up in extreme poverty in London, Pearl thinks life can get no worse. But when her parents discover there's yet another baby on the way, they have to tighten the belt even further. Pearl's mother decides to send her and her younger sister Eliza to the workhouse, where they are forced into a new life of hardship and struggle... -
Montana Reunion by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMONTANA REUNION - The McCutcheon Family series, Book ElevenArizona, May 1888A year and a half after Chaim McCutcheon was essentially left at the altar—for reasons he's yet to discover—one steadfast aim remains firm in his mind and heart... -
A Crying Shame by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsClaire Nightingale is haunted by the memory of childhood abuse and the painful choices she was forced to make. Longing to find peace, she knows she must first confront her demons.Moving to Solihull with her adopted daughter Nikki, she tries to make amends with the family she left behind... -
The Winter Promise by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1850.When Opal Sharp finds herself and her younger siblings suddenly orphaned and destitute, she thinks things can get no worse.But soon three of them - including Opal - are struck down with the illness that took their father from them, and her brother Charlie is forced to make an impossible decision. Unable to afford a doctor, he knows the younger children will not survive... -
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Beyond the Distant Hills by AnneMarie Brear
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Slum Angel.Beyond the Distant Hills is the sequel to A Distant Horizon.Australia 1853Settled in the colony, Ellen embarks on making a happy new life for her family and to forget the horrors of famine-struck Ireland... -
A Distant Horizon by AnneMarie Brear
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the author of The Slum Angel and The Kitty McKenzie series.1851 Ireland.After enduring years of a devastating potato famine, Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. Crop failures and a descent into poverty changes her from a happy wife and mother to a woman struggling to keep her children alive... -
The Slum Angel by AnneMarie Brear
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPerfect for the fans of Anna Jacobs and Dilly Court. Orphan, Victoria Carlton is brought up by her uncle, a banker, to be a lady and make a good marriage. Yet, she is drawn to help the poor families in the slums, much to her family’s disgust. When her uncle dies suddenly, her cousins blame Victoria, and she is thrown out of the house with nothing... -
Forging the Shilling Girl by Emma Hardwick
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt is December 1849. Young, widowed Clare Byrne, is escaping the famine in Ireland. On the coffin ship from Dublin, in the final hours of the journey to England, Clare goes into labour. Weakened and alone, the young, beleaguered mother gives birth near the quayside... -
The Hod King by Josiah Bancroft
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsFearing an uprising, the Sphinx sends Senlin to investigate a plot that has taken hold in the ringdom of Pelphia. Alone in the city, Senlin infiltrates a bloody arena where hods battle for the public's entertainment. But his investigation is quickly derailed by a gruesome crime and an unexpected reunion... -
The Little Angel by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom Sunday Times bestselling author of Mothering Sunday, Rosie Goodwin, comes the next in this heartwarming and heartbreaking Christmas treat.1896, Nuneaton.Left on the doorstep of Treetops Children's Home, young Kitty captures the heart of her guardian, Sunday Branning, who has never been blessed with a child of her own... -
Prism Cloud by Jeff Wheeler
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFriendship is strained to its breaking point in Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler’s fourth Harbinger novel.When the emperor is assassinated, Sera Fitzempress is the noble most eligible to inherit the empire. Her upcoming marriage to the prince would cement her position...Categorized as:
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The Gunpowder Girl by Tania Crosse
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOriginally published as Cherrybrook Rose and A Bouquet of Thorns.A GRIPPING TALE OF LOVE AND SELF-SACRIFICE SET ON WILD DARTMOORDartmoor, 1875. Rose Maddiford, beautiful, vivacious and intelligent, could have her pick of men across Dartmoor. But she is in no hurry to marry unless it is for true love — and certainly not while she can help her father manage the Cherrybrook Gunpowder Mills... -
The Quarry Girl by Tania Crosse
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOriginally published as A Dream Rides By.August 1883. The future for Ling Southcott, a quarryman’s daughter, seems to be already mapped. Marriage to her childhood sweetheart, Barney, a cluster of children, a life contained to the hamlet of Foggintor Quarry. For Ling, with her sharp, enquiring mind and love of books, it is an accepted, if unwelcome fate... -
An Orphan's Christmas Dream by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the workhouse, little orphan Holly Green dreamed of a Christmas filled with roast beef and plum pudding. But Holly's beautiful Christmas dream was soon to contort into a cruel nightmare.One snowy Christmas Eve, two vulnerable little girls run away from the harsh workhouse, into the unknown and unforgiving world that was Victorian London... -
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The Blind Sibling by Hope Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“When you have no more hope left, sometimes you have to join forces with the enemy to survive.”Lizzie White is so happy when her baby sister is born in their gloomy dwelling in the Seven Dials slum of Victorian London. Even when it turns out that little Annie will never be able to see in her life. But then cruel fate decides to serve the girls an even rougher hand... -
Trial by Fire by Jada Fisher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a world full of darkness, the light of the sun is the only thing that can keep the Dark at bay. And dragons are the only thing that can protect the light.Tennegan Felter (Ten) is a humble servant in Epoch Sol, a beacon of light in a world full of darkness. Her deepest desire is to serve the city she loves and defend it from the creatures of the Dark that live all around... -
The Workhouse Daughter by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWork hard and avoid the workhouse her Papa had always told her. But Papa was dead, and now six-year-old Amelia Gladstone was living in her darkest dreams. Life would have been unbearable if it weren’t for Robert Merriweather, a fellow workhouse orphan, who had more than a touch of daring and adventure about him... -
Quinn Valley Ranch Pamela Kelley: Three Book Collection (Sweet Family Saga Series) by Pamela M. Kelley
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is a collection of Pamela Kelley's three sweet romances in the Quinn Valley Ranch series. This is a family saga series, set in a small Idaho town near a big lake and mountains. The books are tightly connected and feature a loving family and siblings. Book one--Ryder Revisited--is a Second Chance romance featuring Bethany and Ryder. Chef Bethany Davis needs a job. Ryder Quinn needs a Chef... -
House of Cards by R.L. King
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE STAKES HAVE NEVER BEEN HIGHERJust when Kira Talon is sure her life couldn’t go better, the unthinkable she’s found out her beloved brother is alive.But when she chooses to remain behind in one of the nonmagical cities to find him, she has no idea how much everything is about to change... -
The Mechanic by R.L. King
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDanger Is In The CardsKira Talon’s future has never looked brighter.She’s got a new home in New Argana. Its brilliant and enigmatic leader Trevor Harrison has agreed to train her in magic. And as she settles into the next stage of her life, she’s finally beginning to get over her grief at the loss of her old friends... -
Love and Sacrifice by Tove Foss Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEpic, Genre-Bending Science-Fantasy Sixteen-year-old Princess Katrin is leaving Mordania for the first time, on her way to take the Grand Tour of the Middle Continent. For the first time in her life, she will leave her title and ties to the Royal Family of Mordania behind and travel incognito with her family... -
Escape From The Devil: The Crocketts' Western Saga by Robert Vaughan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWITH THE CROCKETTS' IN TOWN, EVERY TWO-BIT GUNSLINGER’S CHANCES OF SURVIVING ARE JUST ABOUT ZERO…After brothers Will and Gid Crockett deliver several horses to Colonel John Abernathy – a man they knew during the civil war – he hires them to accompany his sixteen-year-old daughter, Julia, on a stagecoach trip for fear she may be kidnapped and held for ransom... -
Beyond the Veil of Tears by Rita Bradshaw
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn only child, fifteen-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a coaching accident and she is given into the care of her uncle. Naive and innocent, Angeline is easy prey for the handsome and ruthless Oswald Golding who is looking for a rich heiress to solve the money troubles his gambling and womanizing has caused... -
The Forgotten Daughter by Hope Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaggie could have had a great childhood. But her mother dies while her father is far away in America. Hated by her grandparents, Maggie ends up in the dreaded workhouse where she finds a friend and protector in Jack. When Jack is sold off as an apprentice, Maggie must flee for her life. Again and again, Maggie is thrown in the deepest darkest despair as she seems to lose her closest friends... -
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The Stolen Child: The most heartwrenching and heartwarming saga you'll read this year by Jennie Felton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'One of the nation's favourite saga writers' Lancashire Post'A real heartbreaker' PeterboroughTelegraph'Brimming with high drama, anguish, love, loss, tragedy, and gripping twists and turns, this is an absorbing and poignant story... Felton, a born storyteller, has a warm and compassionate heart.. -
The Forgotton Match Girl's Christmas Birthday by Iris Cole
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the grip of a winter freeze at Christmas. Taking refuge in a garden seems Holly's only hope. She had no idea of the terrible secrets she would discover.Holly Tavistock ekes out a living on the streets of London selling matches... -
The Orphan's Scandal by Jessica Weir
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWill the sins of the mother condemn the daughter to a life of loss?Heartwarming saga romance FREE on Kindle Unlimited. London, 1879. At just 13 years old, Florence Smith's life will change forever. Losing almost everything, she must grow up quickly and hope that a secret scandal does not come back to haunt her... -
The Pit Brow Sisters by Hope Dawson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe sweet and heartbreaking Victorian romance saga of a young woman who loses nearly her entire family in the coal mines of LancashireJenny Swift is born into a coal mining family in the north of England. As the eldest daughter, it's her responsibility to look after her three siblings. A duty that doesn't always sit well with her... -
Catrina's Return by AnneMarie Brear
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Scottish Highlands, 1899. A life altering event led Catrina Davies to hide from her family and society. Alone in The Highlands she exists in a lonely world cared for only by her savior, a kind old gentleman. When she receives a surprise visitor, Travis Millard, the man she used to love, her head and heart are thrown into turmoil... -
The Toymaker's Daughter by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Guilty.” Sixteen-year-old Anne Besant was thrust into the role of mother, father, and bread-winner to her young siblings when her father was incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. She battles to save the little shop where her father crafted the toys of children's dreams... -
THE JARROW TRILOGY: all 3 enthralling sagas in 1 volume; The Jarrow Lass, A Child of Jarrow & Return to Jarrow by Janet MacLeod Trotter
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPassionate tales of love, heartache and survival against the odds, The Jarrow Trilogy follows the lives of 3 remarkable heroines and their families from the dire poverty of Victorian dockyards through the momentous times of the First and Second World Wars to the changed world of 1950s Britain... -
Eberron: Rising from the Last War by Wizards of the Coast
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsExplore the lands of Eberron in this campaign sourcebook for the world's greatest roleplaying game. This book provides everything players and Dungeon Masters need to play Dungeons & Dragons in Eberron--a war-torn world filled with magic-fueled technology, airships and lightning trains, where noir-inspired mystery meets swashbuckling adventure... -
The Proud Breed by Celeste De Blasis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAN UNTAMED WOMAN... A FEARLESS MAN... A MAGNIFICENT LOVE. THE MONUNENTAL ADVENTURE THAT SWEEPS ACROSS A MIGHTY CENTURY OF AMERICAN HISTORY.The first time Gavin Ramsay sees Tessa MacLeod y Amarista -- a violet-eyed beauty swimming naked in a hidden pool--she reacts by attacking him with a knife. Realizing her mistake, she nurses him back to health and into a deep, enduring and courageous love... -
The Railway Girl by Tania Crosse
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOriginally published as The Wrong Side of Happiness.A STRUGGLE TO FIND LOVE AND HAPPINESS AGAINST THE ODDSDevon, 1887. Life has not been kind to dairymaid Tresca Ladycott. She can’t rely on her flighty farmhand father, Emmanuel, so she relies on herself.Then comes a devastating blow. Tresca is sacked from the dairy and the pair lose their home... -
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The Cotton Mill Girl by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe mill was set to break Lottie. Heston mill had already broken so many young lives, robbed innocents of digits and limbs, snuffed out the light behind so many eyes, all without a glimmer of remorse. Such was life for thousands in Victorian England. Why should Lottie be any different? But the mill was Lottie’s World; she knew nothing else... -
A Daughter's Promise by Lynette Rees
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA heartwarming saga, from the ebook bestselling author of The Workhouse Waif.Eighteen-year-old seamstress Kathryn Flynn lives in Whitechapel, London, struggling to support her widowed mother and younger siblings. But when her work starts drying up and her mother falls ill, she is forced to consider desperate measures . . -
Under the Ice Blades by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsCaptain Astuawilda Kaika is an elite forces soldier, a demolitions expert, and a woman who loves secret missions. She most certainly isn’t someone with the patience to teach General Zirkander’s raw cadets how to survive encounters with the enemy. Certain she’s been given this duty as a punishment, she confronts her superiors, only to find out that King Angulus himself gave her the assignment... -
The Orphan's Notebook by Eliza Lawley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn March 1876, the life of eight-year-old Josephine Mary Jones changed forever. Torn from the protection and love of her family and her beloved wolfhound, Clyde, Josie finds herself cold and alone at the Foundling Hospital, where her spirit and outspokenness is seen as nothing but trouble... -
Empire's Run: Otherworld Academy 04 by Deacon Frost
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Venture returned to the Academy to find it surrounded by the might of the empire. Levi Walker and his lovers must survive while under siege from the greatest military force the dimensions have ever known... -
The Maid's Christmas Wish by Annie Shields
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChristmas should be a time of joy and happiness. But Elspeth Swann lives in constant fear. Her husband, Clarence, the man who is meant to love and protect her, is the reason for this dread. This Christmas, there seems to be no escape from her life of hardship and pain.Elspeth works as a maid for the town's recluse, Silas Moore... -
Hard Way by R.L. King
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn brutal Calanar, you’re nothing without magic.Kira Talon has a secret.Raised since childhood among the nonmagical “Dim” when her expected magical birthright didn’t materialize, she barely remembers her early time in the opulent floating city high above the war-torn sprawl below...Categorized as:
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The Orphan Star of the Dockyard: Victorian Romance by Rachel Downing, Dolly Price
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlthough Isabella’s family never had much money in the dockyards, that never stopped her from feeling like a star. That is until a shipping accident kills her father, and illness takes her mother, leaving her alone to fend not only herself but her two younger sisters as well, in the cruel slums of Liverpool... -
The Lost Orphan of Cheapside: Victorian Romance by Dolly Price
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCaroline is an orphan. Vulnerable and passed from family member to family member until the fateful day she disappears in Surrey Gardens.No one could imagine the hell this innocent girl would now endure at the hands of her kidnappers. All hope seems lost until Arthur stumbles through the doors of the Lanyard Arms... -
The Tobacconist's Wife: An emotionally absorbing Victorian saga by AnneMarie Brear
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Slum Angel.Having lost her father, Thea Goodson is alone in the world.It is true she has a husband, but Ernie is a brutal man, more inclined to use his fists to keep Thea in line than to build on their marriage. And besides, Ernie Goodson has secrets – secrets that even his wife cannot share... -
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The Victorian Millhouse Sisters: Victorian Romance by Dolly Price
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBlossoming in a Victorian slum is an impossible dream. Hopes and dreams come here to die, not to be born.But Daphne is an unusually determined dreamer.Despite the disappearance of her parents and siblings, she holds to her goal. The workhouse can't stop her. The slums won't prevent her. Disaster and degradation only fuel her intentions... -
The Edge Chronicles Standalone: The Lost Barkscrolls by Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThese exciting tales are ideal for those new to the Edge, or as an addition to the collection of any fan. The Lost Barkscrolls include the stories CLOUD WOLF, THE SLAUGHTERER'S QUEST, THE BLOODING OF RUFUS FILATINE and THE STONE PILOT.Unfortunately, this book is no longer in print. However, These four stories have now been included in the four most recent UK editions of the original books... -
Beginnings: five heroic fantasy adventure novels by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen her island home is invaded by enemy soldiers, her family captured, and the town enslaved, Taylina must find a way to fight back and free her people. But their enemies have powerful warships, sorcerers, and dragons. Her simple people are no match... -
Workhouse Girl and The Veiled Lady: Victorian Romance by Dolly Price
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAbandoned by all who should protect her the workhouse swallows the young life of Olivia Coomb. It also swallows her voice.Who could ever love a mute and broken girl like Olivia? Franklin Slater wants nothing more, but society slays his advances and Olivia is forced to flee once again.It seems that even the prayers of the voiceless fall on deaf ears... -
The Slum Sisters: Dot's Story by Annie Shields
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor Dot Williams, each day on the harsh London streets is a battle to feed the family, pay the rent and stay alive. Its a battle she is struggling to win.*For fans of Dilly Court & Rosie Darling *The only light in her life is Bertie, the grocer's son, but his overbearing father conspires against their happiness... -
Freeglader by Paul Stewart
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, young librarian knight Rook Barkwater and his colleagues – Felix Lodd and his banderbear friends – must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades.But perils aplenty are ahead for the crowd, and Rook knows the journey will be full of danger. Meanwhile, in the Goblin Nations, the tribes are amassing for war...
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