Janet Woods
Secrets and Lies
This story transports you into the very different worlds of London and Sydney, Australia, during the Depression era through the…
Lady Lightfingers
Celia Law is the daughter of an Englishwoman who was hoodwinked by the man who fathered Celia and quickly deserted…
Straw in the Wind
In this mid-Victorian novel, detective Adam Chapman is hired by Dorset sea captain Erasmus Thornton to discover whether his lover’s…
The Coal Gatherer
Callie is one of many children born to Mary and Ebeneezer Ingram, fisher-folk who scratch a precarious and impoverished living…
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