A young girl triumphs over adversity but what will her true destiny be? Portsmouth 1796 “Your name or so help me I’ll have it flogged out of you!” The boy looked shocked and spoke angrily. “Flog? Flog? What kind of pirate ship is this?” “PIRATE SHIP!” Captain Pelgrave exploded, causing more than one hand to wince but the boy stood his ground. “Yes! First your men attack my brother and I whilst going about our lawful business, then you rob us and now you threaten flogging. What better description of a pirate ship could there be!” By now the Captain was not only angry but ...

A cross-class love affair of misunderstanding and loyalty. ‘Will you marry me?’ is not a question Toby every expected to hear from Samantha Causton. She is impetuous, clever and lovely and has always fascinated him. Her powerful relatives, however, would be unlikely to view him as a suitable candidate for her hand. Although now a successful lawyer he is not of her class, having been abandoned as a baby and once served as a footman. Samantha helps to catch the nation’s spies by both breaking and writing codes for Whitehall. Stories lie behind those codes; secret meetings, nefarious and...

Francis Hampton, Duke of Abbeywell, rarely has cause to smile. Family responsibilities not only rule his life, they have also driven away the earl’s daughter he was to wed. When an unknown young woman suddenly turns up at his estate in Berkshire, he is suspicious and determines to investigate her origins. Charlotte Fielding is everything he is not, happy-go-lucky, cheerful in adversity, ever ready to see the good in all, and poor. Her arrival coincides with the start of six weeks of severe winter weather, confining most of the population to home, including the occupants of Abbeywell Park...

Sequel to Miss Charlotte Elizabeth Greene. June 1799 Following her marriage to Captain Sir Thomas Pelgrave, Charlotte, a humble seamstress, has now become Lady Pelgrave but with Thomas unexpectedly called away, she finds herself alone at her new home just the day after her wedding. A quarrel with Lady Wingate, the matriarch of the county's social elite threatens to make her ostracised added to which she faces fierce opposition from her new brother-in-law and his wife. Can Charlotte overcome the prejudices and resentment her marriage has created and gain acceptance? Lady Pelgrave follows the...

In this Regency love triangle, spinster Amanda Fitzhugh is far too level-headed to again fall for any man's seductive promises. She'd been down that road before and was lucky to escape with her virtue intact. She's content to chaperone her young cousin's come-out and betrothal to Simon Hannibal Thornton, one of England's most esteemed war heroes, now Lord Sommersby. But when the iron-willed earl with a haunted castle turns his soldierly skills from winning a bride to conquering her companion, Amanda discovers her own heart in mortal danger amid the ghosts of passion. --"What a splendid ...