作者: Meg Hutchinson

He claimed to be a man of God. But he did the devil’s work.Thomas Thorpe hides his carnal desires under the mask of a pious lay preacher. When Ann Spencer rejects his advances, he evicts her from her …

The Number One bestseller.When Tam’s brother Benjie is wrongly accused of theft, and locked in a prison cell, his sister makes a solemn promise that she will not let the little lad down. But Fate …

Maura Deverell is a young Irish peasant girl whose mother is dying of consumption. Their cruel landlord threatens to throw them out of their cottage unless Maura agrees to marry his young son, Liam …

Robbed of marriage to the man she loved, Leah Bryce rears his daugther Miriam as her own. But her bitterness and desire for vengeance lead her to treat the girl with extreme cruelty, and when Miriam …

‘You be a cheat and a liar Katy Hawley, no wonder your folks d’aint want you! Well we don’t want you neither, do we girls?’It was only a playground spat but the cruel words burned like acid into …

A dramatic tale of a wronged woman who rises above adversity to grasp love and happiness at last. For fans of Josephine Cox and Catherine Cookson.Shocked beyond measure at her wrongful imprisonment, …

With mounting disbelief, Regan Trent realises that the death of her beloved mother has left her totally at her stepfather’s mercy. But mercy is a foreign concept to Sherwyn Huntley. To this ruthless …

Set against the backdrop of World War I, this is a heartbreaking tale for fans of Josephine Cox.Having suffered much cruelty at the hands of her father, Isabel Kenton is shocked to hear after his …

Agnes Ridley has a cruel tongue and a heart of stone, and when she discovers housemaid Lizzie Burton has fallen pregnant, she turns her out with only the clothes on her back. If it weren’t for loyal …

How far will she go for the love of her sister?When Myra Brent’s sister Eden visits her at Moorcroft House, instead of welcoming her, she gives Eden a stinging slap. Eden is devastated by her …

Raped and left pregnant by her drunken father, Anna Bradley knows she must abandon her baby and make a new life if her son is to have a future. As luck would have it, she is befriended by Maggie …

Banished from her father’s sight and home since the age of four, wheelchair-bound Esther Kerral is horrified when Jos Kerral forces her into an arranged marriage with Morgan Cosmore, the son of a …

Laura Cadman had always assumed she would marry Edmund Shaw, the son of her father’s partner, and keep the Shaw and Cadman name. But Edmund’s violent refusal is just the beginning. When Jabez Shaw …

She thought her troubles were over . . .After her beloved father’s suicide, increasingly desperate poverty forces a crisis for Callista Stanford – for vicious rent collector Oswin Slade will accept …

One of five sisters, Margaret Rose Astbury grew up in Wednesbury during the first half of the twentieth century. Despite the constant struggle to make ends meet, and the hardship and worry of …

‘Throw it to the dogs! Do as I say or by Christ I’ll do it myself and throw you in after it!’Tyler Cadell’s cruel order spells heartbreak for his wife Garnet and their new-born baby. She flees to …

A compelling tale of good and evil for fans of Josephine Cox.Emma Price is only a pit bank wench, but her corn-coloured hair and blue eyes win the love of Paul Felton, younger brother of the colliery …

‘Don’t go, Amber, don’t leave Denny an’ me alone, I be feared of this house.’If only she had heeded her ten-year-old sister’s words! But Amber Neale returns from India to the devastating news of …

Young Philippa Cranley is living a lie. Her tyrannical father Archer forces her to masquerade as a man in order to comply with the terms of her maternal grandfather’s Will, and enable him to inherit …

A feature on Old Wives’ Tales is not exactly the assignment to make Kate Mallory’s pulse race. She fancies herself an investigative journalist and crime reporter and has the stories under her belt to …

Journalist Kate Mallory is covering a routine case of vandalism in a local churchyard when she comes across a mysterious foreign banknote and a drawing of an ancient talisman, the Seal of Ashmedai, …

Philip Bartley stops to pick up a hitch-hiker one rainy night, hoping for sexual favours in return. But when the car crashes into a hedge, the slender, blonde figure with the seductive tongue is …

Emma Lawrence has reason to fear the base cruelty of the man she must call uncle. She and her sister Rachel were taken into the Gilmore household on the death of their parents and have known nothing …

Helpless, Saran Chandler stands by as her mother and younger sister are sold by the vile Enoch Jacobs and herself narrowly escapes the same fate. When Enoch drowns, Saran swears that she will not …

In the grand tradition of Josephine Cox and Catherine Cookson.Stunned by her stepmother’s accusation that she killed her beloved little brother, Rachel Cade is even more shocked to find she is at the …

Anne Corby flees from Russia when her mother dies in the wild savagery of the steppes. Pregnant with an illegitimate child – the result a brutal rape, Anna returns to Darlaston with nothing but a …

Meg Hutchinson’s twentieth novel sweeps from the collieries of the Black Country to the sugar-scented islands of the Caribbean as it tells the story of a young woman who must suffer many violent …

A captivating saga for fans of Josephine Cox and Catherine Cookson.Carys Beddows cannot understand why her mother hates her so much. Certainly jealousy plays a part: Maria believes that young Ryder …

Emma Lawrence endures harsh treatment at the hands of her aunt and uncle, the Gilmores, for the sake of her sister, Rachel. But after Rachel is brutally raped and strangled, Emma must escape to save …

Saran Chandler is a locksmith’s daughter but following her father’s death, her happy family is torn apart and she is left to fend for herself. Luke Hipton is a workhouse orphan with a murky past who …

Isabel Kenton is left to run the family business when her father dies on the eve of the Great War and her twin brother enlists in the Flying Corps.A clairvoyant tells Isabel that ‘yours will be a …

Lizzie Burton is an orphan of mysterious origins. She has been a housemaid at Portland House for as long as she can remember. Deborah Hammond is also an orphan from the workhouse and, like Lizzie, …

Rachel Cade is a miner’s daughter on the run from a crime she did not commit.Jared Lytton is the hot tempered but well-meaning mine owner who cannot stop thinking about her. Stunned by her …

Miriam Bryce has never known her mother’s love. And when she finds herself pregnant and deserted by her lover Saul, her mother is quick to throw her out of her home. Injured in an accident she is …

It is 1914 and Europe is on the brink of war. Anne Corby flees Russia following the death of her parents, but as she is pregnant with an illegitimate child – the result a brutal rape – Anna returns …

The Sanford family are dogged by misfortune. Callista Sanford’s father was well educated but ended up working in a steel foundry, before mysteriously taking his own life. Callista is left struggling …

Emma Price has eyes like a summer sky and is as kind and generous as she is beautiful. She is in love with Paul Felton and he with her, but their love seems sure to fail as Emma’s father works in the …

Sold into marriage, can she prove her true worth? Another heart-wrenching, gripping story from the Queen of Sagas. Banished from her father’s sight and home since the age of four, wheelchair-bound …

She will fight for her father’s legacy against those determined to destroy her… Abel Pardoe’s daughter Phoebe is young and in love, doted on by her mine owner father and engaged to be married to …

Can a legacy of hate ever be overcome… Maura Deverell lives with her ailing mother in the beautiful Irish hamlet of Clonmacnoise, where the locals still believe in ancient magic. Their cruel …