The course of family saga historical love stories is not a smooth one for Annie Pepper, a young woman facing the burdens of poverty and unrequited love in historical Ulster. When Billy Dawson turns up on her mother's flax farm to help with the harvest, Annie is captivated by him, and believes the promises he makes to her when he says he will marry her. But her sister, Mary, has also fallen for him, and the jealousy between these two women in love threatens to shatter the family ties that are all that hold the farm together. When the worst happens and Annie's mother runs out of money, family...

Annie Melville thinks she finally has everything she wants: a loving husband with whom romance and babies is a real possibility, a good home, and the dangerous Billy Dawson out of her life for good. But in an unforgiving age where women alone rely on the family circle to survive the perils of urban life, what happens when family drama threatens to tear her world apart? Almost as soon as they are married, Annie's new husband, Alex, a police sergeant with the Dundee constabulary, shows his true colours, and Annie's dream of historical romance turns into a nightmare. He is jealous of women and...

This is the third book in this historical romance family adventure trilogy concerning Annie, (Pepper then Melville). From her original roots in Ireland Annie has had an eventful and often tumultuous personal and family life in Dundee and, in Annie MacPherson, we see her move to another phase of her life, equally full of problems, intrigue and decisions to make. The year is 1928 and Annie Melville has been happily married for 11 years to Euan MacPherson. They have a 10 year old son, Ian, and a daughter, Lexie, from Annie's first marriage to Alex Melville. Annie's links to the past and Billy...

Annie Pepper is now in her mid forties and her daughter Lexie has just turned seventeen. Annie's late sister Mary, also had a daughter who is called Nancy and she is nineteen years old. This latest book in the Pepper family saga is their story of growing up in Dundee in the 1930s and, like their mothers before them, trying to find love and a better life in a city where poverty still reigns and happiness can still only be found with the support of the men in their lives. Lexie seems to be carving a future for herself as a typist in Baxters Mill Office, with a boyfriend who loves her and wants...

For Lexie Melville and Nancy Donnelly, life hadn't turned out quite as they had dreamed it would. Nancy was stuck in a loveless marriage and Lexie, at the age of 29, looked like being 'left on the shelf.' An 'auld maid' Nancy had called her. But for both women, in Dundee in Scotland in 1942, life began to take a turn for the better. World War 2 was changing everyones lives, men were conscripted to fight Hitler and the might of the German forces, while the able-bodied women were called on to do the work of their men in the mills and foundries of the city.

Still living at home with...