Meg Hutchinson

Colliery owner, Carver Fenton, is determined that his step-brother shall not marry miner's daughter, Emma Price. Carver himself brutally rapes Emma and then abandons the pregnant girl. Years later he determines to track down the girl he has wronged.

Saran Chandler's mother and sister are sold to a vicious businessman by her evil step-father. Saran herself benefits from an act of kindness and sets up a business in competition with the man who bought her mother and sister. X rated, explicit sexual content.

Amber Neale returns from India to hear that her younger sister has died and her brother is missing. Privately she blames Uriah Buckley, a local mine-owner. Amber and her Indian friend, Rani, start a successful beauty business, but success can't replace her lost siblings. She wants to know the truth even though Uriah Buckley is determined to stop her.