Audrey Howard

The story of a passionate young woman whose headstrong determination to make a life for herself leads to tragedy.

Briony Marsden led a hard life working in the family mill, but things took a turn for the worse after one of her father's drunken rages. She was rescued by wealthy Chad Cameron, who fell in love with her and wanted to marry her. But could such a marriage survive?

In the 1870's a young girl is adopted by a farmer's wife, and later agrees to marry the son and heir of the family. After the marriage she falls in love with another man, thus causing heartache and tragedy.

Vibrant Ally Pearce and her delicate yet calculating sister Betsy live on the family narrowboat, on the Leeds-Liverpool canal. When Dr Tom Hartley enters their lives they are both attracted to him. Betsy and Tom decide to marry, but when Betsy disappears Tom and Ally realise they can make a fresh start, but will it be together?

Abby Murphy is brought up in poverty, but as a teenager she discovers that she is heiress to a great fortune. Her tyrannical grandfather, Bradley Goodwin, tears her away from her family, determined to turn her into a lady. He also wants to secure his family business by making Abby marry his nephew, Noah Goodwin.

When rejected by Freddy, the man she loves, Kitty Hayes is heartbroken. In fury she marries Ben Maddox though she doesn't love him. Only when her selfishness leads to an accident does she realise what she could lose, but is it too late?

Set in the Pennines, a passionate story of an untamed girl who brings heartache and tragedy to all those she loves. Some explicit sexual content.

When eighteen year old Lucy Dean accepts the proposal of wealthy James Buchanan, the ensuing marriage surprises, charms and scandalizes the town of Ambleside.

Grace Tooley is the only girl in a family with six boys. When her eldest brother dies she meets and falls in love with his friend, Rupert Bradley. When they meet again the Great War has changed them both and Rupert rejects Grace's love, but she is determined to find the boy she loved in the wreck of a man Rupert has become.

Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor - even by the standards of Edwardian Liverpool - but they have each other. Until Amy is torn from her home by her rich aunt, a woman obsessed by religion and snobbery who wants a girl she can mould as she wishes.

The estate of brutal, Sir Robert Blenkinsopp is happier and richer since his wife Amy took over after he was found unconscious and paralysed at the bottom of his staircase. But he is plotting his revenge against Amy, her children, and the gamekeeper Duffy, who loves her.