Mutual Designs (c 14,000 words)Kay is proud of the company she's created. Kilderscope Interior Design might be a relatively new and small-scale business but her reputation is growing and media coverage...

New Lease of Life (c 13,000 words)Single mum Rosie struggles to hold onto her job and keep her teenage son out of trouble, till her friend Kate comes up with a suggestion that will help them both. The...

Nadine Crichton is a glamorous thirty-something woman of the eighties, running a successful business with her friend Pat. But is it enough? Orphaned as a young adult, she longs to have a family to belong...

Anna knows little of love, but dutifully travels to South Africa to marry a man twice her age, her father's choice. When he dies and the family disowns her, there's no money to bring her home, and she...

On August 28th 1918, the Honourable Violet Douglas Pennant was summarily dismissed from her post as Commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force after 14 weeks in post. Instant dismissal was only used in...

Set in the period of the Crimean War (1853-6) to the start of the Indian Mutiny (1857) this fictional portrayal features several real historical figures and draws on the correspondence, journals and books...

In 1889 eight-year-old Lady Olivia Susannah Charlton, only child of the Duke and Duchess of Charlton, is mysteriously sent to spend a few weeks of high summer with her mother's cousin on the Cornish coast....

Beatrice leaves behind her life and job in London to stay with her great aunt Jane, her only remaining relative. Being mixed race in the early eighties is not that unusual in the big city, but in the...

Two love stories for the price of one! In 1918 Lily Deacon is surprised to be asked to join a commission investigating the morals of young Englishwomen serving at the Western front in the First World...

In 1890, shortly before her twenty-fifth birthday, Elizabeth Portland finds herself abandoned for the second time in her life. Against her better judgement she is persuaded to act as chaperone to an eighteen-year-old...

Set in 1980, mostly in an English seaside resort in Devon, but also features London and Switzerland. Joanne is the eldest daughter of a widowed clergyman and has run his household for years and brought...

When Ellen Roberts opens her front door and finds her long-absent granddaughter Janie standing there, little does she expect she will be confronted by the past.For, once Janie unearths a box of correspondence...

In 1897 orphan Rose Turner revisits Exeter, the city of her birth. A chance meeting inspires her to find a way to better her life and escape the drudgery for which she's been trained. She also learns...

Seventeen year old Jane Waterford quits her step-mother's house in Ireland after the sudden death of her father and takes a ship to England to get away from the threat of an arranged marriage. A friendly...

It's September, 1938, and war is coming. Seventeen-year-old Emily Flannigan faces separation from everyone and everything she knows and loves when she travels alone across the Atlantic to the safe haven...

Thirteen-year-old George is cynical about the existence of ghosts. Then he goes to spend half-term with his Gran and begins to revise his views. Can he believe the fantastic tales she tells him about...

Like to try writing a Regency romance? Here's a resource book to help you get started. It provides details of almost 80 aspects of Regency life from Ackermann's Repository of Arts to Window taxes, together...