They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. Court has been married twice (in 1967, to a sea captain, and in 1995, to a dentist) and has two children. However the company is in dire straits, which forces Carrie to get work as Maria Colville’s companion.

A chance encounter brings Nancy Sunday to the streets of London, where she finds herself amongst a band of street urchins. Filled with nostalgia, pacy stories, and great plucky heroines, all of which are set during the turn-of-the-twentieth century London.

Daisy’s future, as she held the letter in her trembling hands, crumbled right before her, with the words being engraved onto her heart forever. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice.

To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Now I am able to download audio books from the library it has been fantastic as I’m able to carry my I pad about the house while doing my jobs. Nicholas and Jay (who’s a dashing smuggler) however she also finds some dangerous new foes, that each threaten to destroy all that she has built. Essie, after curiosity gets the better of her, follows this man and gets involved in something far greater than she could’ve ever imagined.Its a word that is a pet hate of mine and there are so many more pleasant descriptive words that yourself and or publishers could use in tune with the era that is being written about. Then there’s times a rough diamond, that looked destined to swing from a noose’s end, winds up being an absolute charmer and she finds herself falling for them, so the heroine’s got zero chance of escaping. Rose Munday, while standing on London’s Victoria docks as the wind bites through her shawl, realizes that she’s been abandoned by her sweetheart.

If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Dilly Court grew up in northeast London and resides in Dorset on the beautiful Jurassic Coast with her husband with whom she has two grown kids and four grandkids. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details.These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. He is a man that ends up renting a room inside of Essie’s house, and only identifies himself as ‘Raven’. The Summer Maiden” is the second novel in the “River Maid” series and was released in the year 2018. She grew up in North East London and began her career in television, writing scripts for commercials. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).