A harsh decision made by Sarah s parents had to be lived out, until her world is turned upside down by a phone call bringing a secret from her past into the present. Her life and the life of her family are changed for ever. This intriguing story of romance, set against the background of the hills and sheep-farming communities in the border country between Shropshire and North Wales, tells vividly of the tensions of rejection, lost love, and the taboos of forbidden love."
A harsh decision made by Sarah s parents had to be lived out, until her world is turned upside down by a phone call bringing a secret from her past in...
The growing relationship between Queen Victoria and John Brown is interwoven with the modern-day romance of widow Vicky and widower John Brown. When a ring is found in a loch on the Balmoral estate, Vicky is helped by John Brown to find its provenance. Their respective adult children are wary of the relationship: Vicky s, because they suspect John of being a gold digger, and John s daughter, because of her close possessive relationship with her father. They are all drawn together by a family trauma which brings with it dark suspicions. It is a family dilemma for each one of them. Do they keep...
The growing relationship between Queen Victoria and John Brown is interwoven with the modern-day romance of widow Vicky and widower John Brown. When a...
The Contrite Heart is a powerful novel that portrays, in a vivid way, how beautiful young love between a young man and woman were crushed through parental Victorian prejudices. The story then moves forward to the woman's eventual conventional marriage to another man when her sweetheart moves away. We learn how this marriage was completely devoid of mutually satisfying physical love, which drove her to having an affair, and the subsequent guilt, which laid a heavy burden upon her. The story is woven around her Christian ministry and how the weight of guilt made her decide to consider...
The Contrite Heart is a powerful novel that portrays, in a vivid way, how beautiful young love between a young man and woman were crushed through p...