Lally Fraser, widowed at twenty, seeks comfort with dashing young mill owner Roly Sinclair. But when she finds she is expecting his baby, she turns to his dour brother Harry for help. Secretly in love with her, Harry offers her marriage.Roly, though, is anything but pleased. Threatening scandal or worse, he sets out to destroy them both. And when Harry is injured in a vicious attack, Lally must take charge of the mills to protect her children and the man she is growing to love from his worst enemy - his own brother...
When Abby Murphy discovers she is heiress to one of the largest glass works in St Helen, her whole life is turned upside down. Torn from her poverty-stricken family and forbidden to see her childhood sweetheart, Roddy Baxter, she is forced by her tyrannical grandfather to become a lady.Then Roddy disappears and soon, it seems inevitable that Abby will have to marry the chosen successor of her grandfather, Noah Goodwin, and bear his children. Trapped in a marriage where she is little more than a possession, Abby is determined that no matter what else might change, nothing will stand in the way of her steadfast passion for Roddy.
Ally and Betsy are as different as two sisters can be. Vibrant and headstrong, Ally loves working on her family's narrowboat. Betsy, delicate and calculating, wants only to become a lady. When Dr Tom Hartley enters the sister's lives both are attracted to him - but for very different reasons.
As they dazzle all the men at Queen Victoria's jubilee ball, Beth and Milly Goodwin seem to be mirror images of one another: beautiful, graceful and rich, they can take their pick of any man in St He
