May Turnbull had been born and raised in Cedar Street. When the chance came for her to better herself in Rose’s soft furnishing workroom, she seized it with everything she had. At home with her father crippled in a mine accident, a mother who kept the family together by taking in laundry and two sisters, May was determined that she was going to succeed.When Aaron Rose, wealthy young heir to Rose’s Furniture Emporium, saw May for the first time, he realised she was different, specia...

In the year 1811, Hawksmoor is a growing town surrounded by all the splendour of the northern moorland. This is the dramatic story of the people who helped it grow. The Hardcastles are the wealthy mill-owners – the landed gentry who rule the town with an iron hand. The Scotts belong to the poor but indomitable class of men and women who labour in the factories and scrape a living from their small plots of land. In rivalry and co-operation, love and ambition, their lives touch – yet remain...

‘The whole idea is preposterous. One can’t marry a first cousin!’Particularly for cousins whose mothers have ignored each other for the best part of twenty years. Yet Amy Mallinson is bewildered by her deep feelings for her handsome cousin Charles – far above her in the social scale – and by the emotions he and his family stir in her.Amy is not the only one to be affected by Aunt Charlotte’s malice her mother Violet has suffered and Amy herself has witnessed the destruction of her ...

After the funeral of Max and Maddie Bower, twenty-two year old Leah decides the time has come to seek her independence. She refuses to work any longer in her mother’s business and needing both a job and a place to stay she approaches Clay Richards – an old family acquaintance and now arch enemy.Clay is only too pleased to help, seeing Leah as a useful link to her parents’ business empires. Leah soon discovers that the world of big business is a jungle where ruthless enemies lurk in...

Two lonely children, neglected in their Victorian nursery form a tragic bond on the wild Yorkshire moors. While the dramas of life, death and madness swirl around their family, like smoke from the mill chimneys nearby, Constance and William cling together and swear a pact in blood that they will forever share their hopes and fears and sins.Then their little half-brother is mysteriously killed and a shadow of guilt falls over their family. The two remain silent about the tragedy thr...

In the far-off 1950s, Irish shop girl Rosa Sheridan is seduced under the arches of Clondarra's village bridge. To escape from the stigma of being a fallen woman, she escapes to England, where she makes a new life for herself in Hawksmoor. But she can never forget the baby which she was persuaded to give up for adoption – particularly when her happy marriage does not bring her the children she longs for.Twenty years later Rosa is a successful businesswoman, but her life becomes inte...

When charismatic Vincent Gregg becomes the valley’s first socialist MP it is the realisation of the Pearson family’s dream. But his philandering ways soon lose him his seat. Given a second chance by the Great War, Gregg enlists as a private, but once again finds himself torn between greed and socialist principles.The war is a testing time for the young men of Hawksmoor too. Robert Hardcastle, pampered and effeminate son of the town’s landowner, has to face the horror of Flanders. C...

This sequel to "Chapter of Innocence", which continues the story of Eva Bowe.Away from her beloved from her beloved Yorkshire home, Eva Bower, whom we first met as an outrageous, enchanting nine year old in Chapter of Innocence, has embarked on her university career with a characteristic mixture of bluntness and vivacity, winning herself loyal friends – and an implacable enemy.Eva and her friend Zoe Jacob celebrate freedom from study travelling through France. There they en...

Hawksmoor is set amid the brooding splendour of the Yorkshire moors, a prosperous Victorian town, its throbbing mills weaving wealth for the few. Cedric Moorhouse, its new and ambitious mayor, is anxious to impress the town’s most influential families. But his spirited daughter Violet refuses to fall in with his plans and instead conspires with his assistant, Tom Mallinson, to thwart and dishonour him. Moorhouse turns his back on her, forcing her to live in Hunter’s Yard, a squalid and clo...

Jericho Farm, high in the Pennines, has been in the Hemingway family for generations. Although life on the farm was hard, the place has a rugged compulsion for those who lived and worked there. But now James Hemingway was thinking of breaking with tradition and selling up. With his wife tragically dead, David, his son making a separate career as an artist, Ellen, a stranger, a withdrawn and troubled girl, there seemed little point in staying on at Jericho.Then David the beloved and...

Maddie Renshaw is 20 and lives a lonely life working with James her harshly domineering father on their crumbling, isolated sheep farm Scapegoat, high on the Yorkshire moors. Maddie’s only joy is Duster her mare and the long, exhilarating rides they both enjoy across the wild and treacherous moors.In 1939, Max Bower, an Austrian refugee and a Jew, arrives having been sent by the Ministry of Agriculture to labour on the farm. Tall, attractively dark and enigmatic, Max eases the work...

‘It was then she became aware that Mrs Blackstock was eyeing her with a thoughtful, faraway look, Joanna had a weird sensation that was being mentally taken apart and examined, bit by bit….’Suddenly left alone in the world, Joanna Forrest and her younger sister slowly come to terms with their new life. But their routine is shattered one day by the arrival of a charming yet totally unpredictable poet. Both women become increasingly obsessed with this man who seems to take over their...