Blogs in July 2015

Bonded Heart 28th July 2015

Born into a once-respectable family, circumstances have reduced Roz Trevaskis to working at the local inn. In order to pay the fines incurred through her alcoholic mother’s drunken behaviour, Roz has put herself in debt and reluctantly turned to...

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A Place of Birds 28th July 2015

In Victorian Cornwall nineteen-year-old Susanna Elliot rebels against her strict Quaker background. Alienated from her family and community, rejected by the doctor she admires, and refused permission to take her dead brother’s place in the family business, she flees...

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Eye of the Wind 28th July 2015

In 1794 Lord Roland Stratton left Cornwall for war-torn France to undertake a secret mission for the British government. When her father is felled by a stroke brought on by desperate financial problems, Melissa Tregonning has to try to...

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The Iron Road 28th July 2015

It’s 1865 and the Great Western Railway has spread across Cornwall, changing the face of the countryside with earthworks and viaducts. Now a new line in under construction. The invading army of navvies has many women but few wives....

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Heart of Stone 27th July 2015

In 1840s Cornwall, 25-year-old Sarah Govier supports herself and her illegitimate son, Jory, on the income from Talvan, the granite quarry she inherited from her father. But businessmen Kinver Landry has good reason for wanting Talvan and will stop...

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