1. Fortune’s Daughter
Rosalind Carey has been left to care for her younger brothers and sister in Rockwood Castle, a grand but decaying Devon house burdened by debt. With their parents absent and the estate close to ruin, Rosalind is determined to keep the family together and prevent their…
2. Winter Wedding
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…
3. Runaway Widow
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…
4. Sunday’s Child
Nancy Sunday was abandoned at an orphanage as a newborn and later taken into the Carey household by Rosalind. At eighteen she is loved as a member of the family, yet the mystery of her birth continues to shape her sense of belonging. Sent to finishing…
5. Snow Bride
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…
6. Dolly’s Dream
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…
7. The Lucky Penny
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…
8. Poppy’s Choice
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…