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The Rockwood Chronicles

The Rockwood Chronicles follows the Carey and Blanchard families as they struggle to preserve Rockwood Castle and rebuild their fortunes in Victorian England. Beginning with Rosalind Carey’s attempt to save the crumbling Devon estate, the sequence expands through marriages, widowhood, adoption and the lives of young women drawn into the family’s orbit.

The novels move between rural Devon and London, combining family secrets, financial peril and romance with stories of foundlings, performers and women seeking independence. Although individual volumes centre on different heroines, Rockwood remains the emotional home to which their choices and loyalties repeatedly return.

Reading order

Books in this series (8 books)

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#2 – Winter Wedding

Dilly Court

Christmas approaches Rockwood as Rosalind Blanchard, pregnant and responsible for the estate, receives word that her husband Piers may be dying after a shipwreck. With the castle’s future again uncertain, she must hold the household together while waiting for news that could leave her widowed. The…

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#3 – Runaway Widow

Dilly Court

At twenty-four, Patricia Greystone is left penniless by her husband’s sudden death. Too proud to return to her large family and admit the extent of her difficulties, she travels to London and tries to support herself by singing in the streets. The anonymity of the capital…

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#5 – Snow Bride

Dilly Court

After disappointment in love, Nancy Sunday encounters a group of homeless children on the streets of London. Unable to ignore their hunger and vulnerability, she gives them shelter and begins creating a household for children whom respectable society has abandoned. When one of the children is…

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#6 – Dolly’s Dream

Dilly Court

Dolly Blanchard refuses to accept that marriage should be the limit of her ambitions. When an impoverished actress offers her a way into the theatre, she leaves Rockwood for London, determined to build a career on the stage and prove that she can succeed without her…

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#7 – The Lucky Penny

Dilly Court

Flora remembers the penny she clutched when the Stewart family rescued her from poverty on the streets of London. Adopted into their household, she exchanges hunger and rags for security and comes to believe that she has finally found a permanent home. A sudden reversal sends…

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#8 – Poppy’s Choice

Dilly Court

Poppy Robbins is threatened by a blackmailer who claims to know damaging secrets about her family. With few safe options, she accepts help from the mysterious Edward Taverner, who proposes that she leave London for his country estate and pose as his fiancée to protect both…