“The words each of the three shared would go with them to their graves.”The Queen is dead, long live the king. The Victorian era is coming to an end and war is on the horizon. Faced with millions of people dying and Europe in flames, Theodore Norlong, in Berlin, fights to stop the war to end all wars. Faced with a conspiracy to bring the nations of Europe down, he soon realizes he is not fighting a politician but a whole nation baying for blood.In London, Catherine Urwin ba...

“Just another reason to leave this rotten, uncaring city behind.”Three years after the Ebonson family’s fall from grace and Gertrude Ebonson has become what no woman wants to be. As a fallen woman, she trades the only thing she has left to survive the cold winters. Penniless and isolated from her friends, she contemplates the end of her life.Meanwhile, Theodore Norlong lives under the iron fist of his abusive aristocratic father. Forced into a loveless marriage, Theodore mu...

“One day I will escape.”Madness has become the defining point of Theodore Norlong’s life. After his father followed through on his threat to have him condemned, Theodore was cruelly ripped from reuniting with his true love Gertrude Carnall. Now Bedlam is his home, where he writes a stream of working class propaganda.But escape isn’t far from his thoughts.Miles away lives Edward Urwin. After accepting Clive Griggs’s offer to join him, life has never been better. As h...

"The sooner this ended the better."Fifteen years have passed since the fall of the Third Reich. The Fuhrer is dead, but his shadow remains. Nazis who have escaped justice have encroached upon every democratic institution in the new divided Germany.Klaus Becker is a uniquely talented mechanic working in a small garage in West Berlin. But his life is about to change when he is approached to join the security services of the new West Germany. With no family to turn to and noth...

The first brutal year of World War I has ended and now everyone understands this isn’t a war that will end by Christmas. With thousands lying dead on the fields of France and Belgium, the Keeton brothers continue to fight on.Danny discovers the painful truth of what happened to his older brother Jacob Keeton, and realises not all enemies wear the uniform of a German soldier. A brief reprieve from the war allows him to live the life of a fifteen-year-old for a fleeting moment, befor...

Books 1-7 of the Made in Yorkshire SeriesRichard Warren is growing up in the picturesque village of Ledder Bridge. Little does he know the march of time is destroying centuries of tradition in the British countryside. With the allure of the cities taking hold, this son of a farmer leaves the safety of Yorkshire and indulges in the delights and the darkness of 20th century London, Newcastle, and Leeds.He never would have guessed this was how his life would t...

“What possible way did he have back now?”Far away from home in New York City, Catherine Urwin lives a life of servants, idle chatter, and submissiveness to her wicked guardian Francis Hortbury. When her painting class is interrupted by local gangsters, she becomes drawn into a series of events that leads her back to England and back into the world of Theodore Norlong and his political adversary Sir John Calderdale.Meanwhile, London is gripped by fear. A series of brutal mur...

“After five years they had found freedom again.”Adolf Hitler has swept into power and already the democratic mechanisms of the old Weimar Republic have been dismantled. Nazi Germany has risen and Hitler already has his eyes on expanding the Third Reich. Jews, communists, gypsies, and homosexuals are all targets for the new regime.Now in Berlin, Erich is appointed to the SS, where he works with Reinhard Heydrich’s Gestapo to make the country fall into line. But haunted by th...

Almost five years on and fifteen-year-old Richard Warren is building a fledging career as a young author. With his schooling done and a bitter unwillingness to take over the family farm, he begrudgingly accepts a job at the local newspaper, the Ripon Chronicle. His time as an apprentice takes him outside the bounds of Yorkshire for the first time and he comes into contact with the fanatical Black Liberation Division anarchist group in London. For the first time in his life, Richard wrestle...

Danny Keeton, now 18, has been promoted and is now responsible for leading his friends into battle. The excitement of rank is immediately tempered with a grim responsibility. The weight of leadership weighs heavily on Danny, until the big push begins and his unit are captured by the Germans.Forced to toil in the prisoner of war camps in Germany, Danny believes their capture is his fault. Within days, he begins to plan an escape under the eyes of the starving and increasingly desper...

“I’m happy that it’s all over. Now we can all start again.”Together again, Theodore Norlong and Gertrude Norlong are happily married. Free to enjoy their lives together, it doesn’t take long for cracks to appear in the relationship. As Theodore makes his desires to become a Member of Parliament clear and Gertrude dedicates herself to saving the women of the slums, marriage and a happy home life become secondary.In the heart of London, Edward Urwin finds himself on the oppos...

“I’m not guilty.”It’s 1907 and David Kelly is in the throes of opium addiction. Like thousands of other New Yorkers, he whiles away his days in the embrace of the opium pipe. Only a sudden attack on his hideout and the intervention of his best friend Ben Portnoy saves him from losing himself forever.Determined to fulfil his ambitions of ruling New York, David joins the most powerful Irish gang in the city, the Hudson Dusters. But his activities put him in direct conflict wi...