Her life is the inspiration for the world’s most famous story. Lucinda, a penniless English orphan, is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritance—a pair of glass-beaded slippers—she runs away to France in pursuit of an officer on whom she has a ... more >
In the aftermath of the Civil War, England lies quiet, for now… The war left much of the country ravaged and at Wintercombe, in Somerset, the St Barbe family was not left untouched. But peace is short-lived, as Charles II gathers support in Scotland to once again bring war to ... more >
Sometimes we find light in the darkest of places… Tortured by a cold, Puritan father, Silence has learned to conceal her passionate nature inside a prison like shell of passivity. Her eventual marriage does not offer her the escape that she longs for and she craves some semblance of autonomy. ... more >
WARNING: Spousal rape (not committed by the hero) occurs. The death of a child occurs during a siege. A new life awaits… The year is 1635 When her close family are carried off by the smallpox, the small, ferociously independent Thomazine Heron finds herself an orphan at the age of ... more >
The breath-taking conclusion to Alison Stuart’s English Civil War trilogy introduces a heroine with nothing left to lose and a hero with everything to gain… England, 1659: Following the death of Cromwell, a new king is poised to ascend the throne of England. One by one, those once loyal to ... more >
Seventeenth-century England. In a remote Derbyshire village, over three hundred years ago, a man tried to serve his God to the best of his belief at a terrible cost to himself and others. He believed he was following Divine instructions. But was he a hero or a fool? William Mompesson ... more >