The Highway Trilogy

England 1651. England is engaged in a bitter civil war. Abigail Chaplin, a young deaf girl, is desperate for a chance to show she can work as a maidservant, like other girls her age.

When her father is killed fighting for the Roundheads, and with her family now short of money, she is sent to work where no-one else will - as a servant in the house of her enemies. For Markyate Manor belongs to arrogant sixteen-year-old heiress and Royalist, Lady Katherine Fanshawe.

Katherine has a deadly secret, and Abi swears not to tell. But when Katherine falls for Abi’s brother, a Roundhead, Abi finds her loyalties torn. And as the battle begins, can she keep both her mistress and her brother out of danger?

England,1651. England is fighting a bitter civil war. Rebellious seventeen-year-old Ralph Chaplin has fallen for beautiful copper-haired Kate. There’s only one problem – he is a Roundhead soldier and she is an aristocrat, a Royalist lady.

Ralph’s father tells Ralph that the battle at Worcester will be a chance to finish the fighting for good. But the battle is not the glorious victory he imagines, and Ralph makes a deadly enemy – an enemy intent on cutting down all those Ralph loves, even when the battle is over. As the danger draws closer, can Ralph protect Kate?

Book 2 in the Highway Trilogy.