When widow Kathleen Merchant receives an urgent letter from Roland Perry, her late husband's solicitor she is devastated to hear that her husband had altered his will, leaving her a small bequest, but her 13 year old daughter Annabel a generous trust fund for her private school to university or finishing school. Kathleen knows that Matthew adored his stepdaughter and lavished money on her, unknowingly creating a girl to whom wealth was the main aim in her life. Kathleen knows she can never explain to her daughter the real reason for the vast difference in their lives, giving her a reason...

Set in England in 1898.When Florence Dewhurst defies her wealthy but domineering and abusive, father regarding an arranged marriage to a man who is almost old enough to be her father, she elopes with Raymond Oakfield, the man she loves who is a tenant farmer on her father's estates.With her mother's blessing, Florence and Raymond go to the Reverend North and his wife, friends of her mother who take them in till they are able to be married.Once married they travel to Whitby where Raymond obtains work on a fishing fleet. But his heart is on the land. They settle into their life in Whitby....

A Chain of Events was written as either a stand alone book or as a sequel to From a Distance, which was suggested by a reader who wanted to read Philip's story. Set in Australia in 1912. When Philip Tanner is told he is to leave the Destitute Asylum in Sydney, he knows he is going out into a world of strangers. On the way to the farm to which he is to be apprenticed, the driver is caught in a storm causing the carriage to be stopped in mud. The driver, starts whipping the horse to go ahead. Philip tries to stop him but is beaten, falling from the carriage unconscious. When he regains...