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A pearl comb comes into the possession of three courageous and remarkable women over two centuries.

Living during the time of the Battle of Waterloo, Christabel is feisty with an overactive imagination. She is in love with a soldier who only wants to use her to advance his military career. 

Victoria, living in the mid-nineteenth century, is sweet-natured but haunted by the loss of her child. 

Finally there is Jenny, a 21st century career woman who is unable to sacrifice her pride and forgive the man she loves. 

The pearl comb weaves its way through the centuries; a witness to the despair, loss, hope and dreams of these women. And the men they love.

Having lost her mother the previous year, twelve-year-old Lucy Paget tries to make a contented life with her father on their farm in Ilkley, Yorkshire.  But her father, Sid, would rather spend his time and money in the public house.  One day in a fit of pique, Sid sets her up on a chair and tries to sell her to the men in the public house.  There are no buyers until a certain gentleman shows an interest and decides to take up the offer.  Edwin Beaumont has plans for poor Lucy and for the next eight years, she is trapped in a life of secrets and deceit as she adopts the guise of Edwin’s daughter.  Meeting her ‘cousin’ Theo Keeton brings some consolation and over...

Issac, one of my 5 Star Amazon reviewers said it best:Wow, where do I even start? I picked up this paperback and was immediately hooked by the whole idea of a kid—yes, a seven-year-old—getting abducted by aliens and unknowingly carrying around the secret blueprints for a time-powered starship in his head. Talk about a wild childhood! Fast-forward a bunch of years and boom: StarChaser is born, a ship that uses this mind-boggling “TimeStamping” method to skip through galaxies quicker than I can skip my morning coffee.From the get-go, I could tell the author poured a ton of love and detail into this universe. I caught myself grinning over how vivid every planet and mission was—like I ...

Since childhood Nyssa Wheeler has lived with her stepsister Gwen in a small house in Fulham, London.  But Nyssa possesses the ability of a psychic empath and can read people’s emotions through touch.  This ‘gift’ has enabled her to pursue the work of a private investigator. In the year 1904, she decides to take the position of companion to the Dowager Lady Kirby, living at Kirby House near Bodmin in Cornwall.  Here she meets the dowager’s two sons, Sir Howel, the sixth baronet and Captain Daveth Kirby, newly home from fighting the Boers in South Africa.Although seeking a quieter life, Nyssa is drawn into the mystery of the disappearance of Lady Marie Kirby, Sir Ho...

Since her childhood, Charlotte has been plagued by constant knocking on her bedroom door in the dead of night; a summons she never answers since she fears what might be waiting for her behind the door.While helping her father with his bookshop in Cambridge, Charlotte meets Noel Chandler, a tutor at the university. Noel is also Squire Chandler and owns Martlesham Manor a Tudor house in Suffolk. It's while visiting Martlesham Manor with her cousin, Adele, that Charlotte learns the story of Prudence Chandler who, in the seventeenth century, was denounced as a witch by her husband and mother-in-law and consequently hanged.Charlotte becomes absorbed with the story of Prudence and realises there a...

Maddie Thornton is a modern New York woman transported back to the Year of Our Lord, 1878.

It all started with a television show! A popular English series.  Knights of Chivalry.

Having saved for a trip of a lifetime, one of the chosen few to actually be invited to a live film set, she is approached by a strange man.

Maddie quickly removes herself from the supposed danger.

When suddenly, her world shifts on its axis and all has changed.

A pair of fire-breathing horses are barreling toward her at breakneck speed.  She is standing in the middle of a cobblestone road in the middle of nowhere...

Maddie Thornton is a modern New York woman transported back to the Year of Our Lord, 1878.

 It all started with a television show! A popular English series.  Knights of Chivalry.

Having saved for a trip of a lifetime, one of the chosen few to actually be invited to a live film set, she is approached by a strange man.

Maddie quickly removes herself from the supposed danger.

When suddenly, her world shifts on its axis and all has changed.

A pair of fire-breathing horses are barreling toward her at breakneck speed.  She is standing in the middle of a cobblestone road in the middle of nowhere...

 

When Harriet Grace discovers her grandfather is going blind and unable to operate the railway signal box, she decides to go against the rules and man the signals herself. This will set off a spiral of events when her deception is discovered and the authorities are informed. Harriet must attend a Board of Trade Inquiry and explain her actions. Forced to leave their small cottage, Harriet and her grandfather move to York to live in the same boarding house as the man she loves, Edward Hainsworth, a locomotive fireman.But her move to York will be the catalyst for many changes in her life including the opportunity to work as a telegrapher and clerk with the York Constabulary. Meeting handsome Det...

In the late nineteenth century Lydia Prescott has no ambition to settle down to marriage until she has travelled and seen the world.  But her life and emotions are shaken up when she meets Doctor Russell Brooks.  Unknown to Lydia, Russ is actually an electronics engineer and living in 1998.  They are linked by Lydia’s home, Prescott Grange on the outskirts of Worcester.  In Russ’s time, this has been converted into stylish apartments and he has discovered a winding staircase that leads him into the Victorian era.Russ finds he’s attracted to the beautiful fair-haired young woman; a woman very different from those he knows in the twentieth century.  But is their ...

Awarded a 5* review from The Book Dragon in 2024At the age of fifteen, Katherine Widcombe, the niece of a baronet, is found missing from her bed whilst visiting her maternal aunt in Bristol.  She is returned to her aunt and uncle’s home, Widcombe Hall, blindfolded and with the weight of a terrible secret on her young shoulders. Six years later, she is invited to spend Christmas with her cousin, Philippa and her new husband Conrad, Earl of Croston.  She is horrified when Conrad confesses his love for her.  Dismayed by the awful truth of her past, Katherine returns to the Hall and decides to accept the marriage proposal of Sir Herbert Fox, a man thirty years her senior.&n...

Set in Medieval England there is a kingdom that forbids couples from having more than one child.

This story is about one such occurrence where there is more than one child born into a family of importance and how determination and ingenuity helped them to overcome the kingdom rules.

 

In 1920's Paris, Treasure Gilroy appeared to have a perfect life.Amidst the glitz and glamour, she resided in a luxurious Paris apartment and frequently jetted off to London, New York, and Milan. Her life was the envy of many.While her aunt bestowed Treasure with the affection she craved, the absence of love from her own parents left an unspoken, lingering pain of abandonment.Back in 1915, on a frosty London night, Treasure encountered Ella Dittmar, a young woman who sparked a strange and mysterious déjà vu connection.This inexplicable bond kept them inseparable.Now, accompanied by Ella, Treasure bid farewell to Paris and embarked on a journey to the breathtaking Australian Outback town of...