Dolly Price

The docklands are no place for young Victorian ladies. Running here to escape the cruelty of their stepmother, sisters Clare and Anna fend for themselves in whatever way they can. Edgar’s only school has been the harsh London streets and the Dockland gangs. One thing he has learned above all...

When savage family sickness, and the unscrupulous embezzling steward, Mr. Craven, steals the Boone's family fortune, he snatches Sandra Boone’s idyllic childhood from her innocent hands. The heartbroken child finds herself in a place she never thought possible – destitute and begging on the...

Blackwell Union Workhouse hid a secret for eight long years. Two daughters born behind the dark walls thrust into the arms of the wrong mothers - one mother the Master’s wife, the other a slave of poverty, Dora. Phoebe and Claretta, the workhouse babies, switched at birth and thrust into an...

Drugged and supposedly drowned by the mother who should have loved her, six-year-old Gwendoline is dredged from the Saltwick River. Poverty-stricken but rich in love, Mr. and Mrs. Paul love the tiny child as their own, until hard times and tragedy drive them to the workhouse....

Abandoned by all who should protect her, the workhouse swallows the young life of Olivia Coomb. It also swallows her voice. Who could ever love a mute and broken girl like Olivia? Franklin Slater wants nothing more, but society slays his advances, and Olivia is forced to flee once again. It...

Left to fend for herself and her five siblings, little Daisy Stanley works tirelessly to defend her family. But will the heavy hand of fate steal all of their futures? With her mother succumbing to a life of reckless indulgence, Daisy must become the caretaker for her five siblings. Through...

Two babies swapped at birth. One a lowly miner’s boy, the other a high-born daughter. Will untamed tongues expose the family secret? Lady Napier is desperate to give her high-society husband an heir. Devastated by the birth of yet another girl, a secretive plot is hatched to replace the...

Wrongfully torn from her daughter, a tearful mother leaves her beloved girl to fend for herself in an unforgiving Victorian world. But for her chilly relatives, Tess has no one else to turn to...and even they offer little hope....

Dark Victorian mills. Hidden family secrets. Hope in the face of tragedy. A pretty but penniless girl determined to break free. For the Burrows family, life is hard among the poorest of Liverpool. The port town by the Mersey is beautiful but bleak - for some a place of fortune, for others a...

Deserted by a selfish man, and driven to the workhouse, young Annabel and her midwife mother face a harsh and hopeless future. A critical situation for the workhouse governor then opens a door of deliverance for them both, but it seems that revenge and bitterness hound their every step....

A helpless baby is forsaken in a churchyard. This is how life begins for orphan Emma. Unwanted, cast aside, and thrown on the mercy of strangers, she grows up wondering why. And what are the mysterious gifts each year, placed where her cradle was once abandoned? Now blossomed to youthful beauty...

At the age of nine, Rose Simmons’s childhood comes to an end. That’s the day when she loses her parents in the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Despite the helping hand of a young stranger, her parents are gone, and Rose is left alone....

Blossoming in a Victorian slum is an impossible dream. Hopes and dreams come here to die, not to be born. But Daphne is an unusually determined dreamer....

After her parents die in a suspicious boating accident little Eliza is abandoned by her uncaring, unscrupulous guardians. If not for the love of the nuns in the convent she would surely have died....

Caroline is an orphan. Vulnerable and passed from family member to family member, until the fateful day she disappears in Surrey Gardens....

Industrial Hartleton, England, 1840. Demelza Abbott is just 10-years-old when her doting father dies, and poor girls find little mercy in darkest middle England. Suspecting her father’s untimely death was no accident the tiny girl grows into a woman looking for justice–and love! Forced first...

A servant’s daughter dreams of riches, only to find that the treasures of the heart are the only ones that truly endure. From an early age, Penelope Fowler dreams of escaping the grip of poverty. She helps her servant mother in the Eglinton House but prays one day she will be free to decide...

It is 1874, and a lost little girl stands shivering outside Coll’s Bakery. No one on Lupin Lane recognises her, and the ever-present dangers of Whitechapel leave the fatherless child helpless. What can the elderly couple do but take this bedraggled and hungry orphan into their heart and home?...