She hears voices no one else can. On her twenty-second birthday, they finally answer back.Lena Wren has built a quiet life as a freelance illustrator in rain-soaked Evershade, pretending the whispers inside walls and paintings are only stress. Then a silver crescent ignites beneath her skin, her artwork becomes a map to impossible doors, and faceless creatures begin hunting her.Caelan Frost, a ruthless wolf king, claims he has found her too late on...

Heaven has issued a warrant for Lena Wren's death. The prophecy behind it is already falling apart.After surviving the first Gate, Lena will no longer let wolves, vampires, or hidden courts decide what she is allowed to know. But when Aster Vane descends in white fire to execute the last Moonbound, his visions contradict the sentence he was ordered to carry out.Then four drowned bells ring beneath Evershade. A silent sea priest named Maren Calder r...

Every door in Evershade has opened, and the hidden world has run out of places to hide.Humans can see wolves, blood courts, fallen light, and black water flooding their streets. The old powers blame Lena Wren for the collapse. The Faceless One offers a cruel bargain: become its living face, and the voices will fall silent.Lena refuses to trade freedom for peace. With Caelan, Samuel, Aster, and Maren beside her, she builds a court of witnesses, expo...

She woke up in a flat she didn’t recognise. A man stood beside her, calling her by a name she didn’t remember. But something in his eyes chilled her.*"The Man Beside Her"* is a haunting psychological drama inspired by true events — a tale of trauma, identity, and the harrowing journey toward reclaiming one’s life.When Ada stirs in an unfamiliar London flat, everything she once knew is gone. Her memories are fragments. Her name? A whisper on someone else's lips. And the man ...

This comparative study gathers together new research by local historians into aspects of welfare in Hertfordshire spanning four centuries and focusing on towns and villages across the county, including Ashwell, Cheshunt, Hertford, Pirton, and Royston, amongst many others. In so doing it makes a valuable contribution to the current debate about the spatial and chronological variation in the character of welfare regimes within single counties, let alone more widely. As well as viewing poor r...

This book focuses on one of the most contentious areas of English and Welsh poor law history: the exercise of petty tyranny by officials on the workhouse poor. The book examines the period from the late-eighteenth-century crisis of the Old Poor Law, through the adoption of the New Poor Law reform in 1834, the loosening of the 'principles of 1834' in the 1890s, and on past the early-twentieth-century Liberal reforms, to the eve of World War I. This long chronological sweep thus examines the...

Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.

Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.

Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.

Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.

Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of poverty to poor law officials.

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses. In Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s Steven King reveals colourful stories of poor people, their advocates, and the officials with whom they engaged during this period in British history, distilled from the largest collection of parochial correspondence ever assembled.Investigating the way...