Tilly Masters loves her work as assistant blacksmith to her father despite the disapproval of her aunt who has ambitions for her beyond their little Sussex village. When Ben Masters takes on an apprentice Tilly is upset, thinking Nathan will take over. As they work alongside each other, she gradually falls in love with him and is devastated when he joins the Army and is sent to France to care for the horses on the Western Front.

When her father dies and she gets the dreadful news that Nathan is missing, Tilly goes to live with her aunt where she is pursued by the local squire’s son. Will she succumb to his advances or will she continue to cling to the hope that Nathan will return from the war?

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Orphan Ruby knows no other life than the Foundling Hospital where she was brought up. Sent to work as a kitchen maid for the wealthy Preston family her life hardly seems to have changed until she meets handsome policeman Jeremiah (Jerry) Locker.

During their brief meetings love blossoms until Ruby is assaulted by Oliver Preston, the son of the house, and finds herself pregnant. Despite her hopes and dreams she realizes there can be no future for her with Jerry. It seems things cannot get worse for her. But then she is accused of involvement in the spate of burglaries carried out on the big houses in the square where she lives.

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On Wings of Song

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Rebellious society girl Arabella Raynsford, terrified that her double life is about to be revealed, and to escape from her arranged marriage to rich Irish landowner Oswald Delaney, flees to the Crimea to join Florence Nightingale.

With the connivance of her maid, Maisie, she has been leading a double life as popular music hall singer Bella Forde. She has also fallen in love with penniless engineer Nat Sloane, a match her ambitious mother will never agree to.

She finds fulfillment in working with Florence Nightingale in the hospital but cannot forget Nat or her stage career.

Will she ever sing again and will she and Nat find happiness?