Earl Barton's daughter's new governess is collected from the stagecoach stop. However, the next morning they discover Clara Thompson is the wrong young lady -- she had been expecting to be companion to a Lady Sutton. But Lady Sutton refuses to exchange her for the intended govern...
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"Ipswich, 1919: On her way to teach Sunday School, Margaret Preston finds a badly injured man unconscious at the chapel gate. She and her widowed father, Reverend Preston, take him in and call the doctor. When the stranger regains consciousness, he tells them he has lost his memo...
"It is 1918 and the Great War is ending. The evening before the last great battle, Ben hears that the flu epidemic has killed his entire family. Devastated, he is reckless in battle. Badly wounded, he is sent to an auxiliary hospital in England. Laura's grandfather, the earl, has...
It is December, 1813. Two small girls are bored, lonely, and travelling to their grandmother's house for Christmas. Their father is a widower, barely able to walk after fighting Napoleon, their nursemaid is not very bright, and their governess has no enthusiasm or imagination. Th...
Amanda is nineteen years old, very beautiful, very wealthy, orphaned and half-Bengali. She moves from Calcutta to London to live with her uncle, but he is prejudiced against her Indian appearance and her Indian servants. And when she is abandoned at a country inn by a fortune hun...
Travelling to visit her great-aunt Susan in Yorkshire, Eleanor Sutcliffe has sensibly reserved accommodation at posting-inns along the way. However, every day of the journey, her coach is overtaken on the road by a distinctive four-horse post-chaise with yellow wheels. A post-cha...
Francis, Viscount Hilton, has twin stepsisters who are complete hoydens and give him no peace at all. He eventually takes them to London for the season, hoping to find suitably strong-minded husbands to take them off his hands. But he knows nobody in London society and needs the ...