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|  | | Bad to the Bone
Swansea 1899 on the eve of the turn of the century. Kate has it all. She is eighteen, beautiful and rich and is in love with handsome eligible bachelor Mansel Jenkins. Her life is about to be changed for ever.
Kate's imminent marriage to Mansel Jenkins does not suit her tyrannical stepfather Luther Templar who is determined to get his hands on Kate's wealth. With the help of the devious family doctor Luther persuades Mansel that Kate suffers from hereditary madness. When Mansel breaks off their engagement Kate is devastated. Luther then forces Kate to marry his nephew. Trapped with a husband she does not love Kate desperately tries to regain the lost love of her adored Mansel. | |  | | By Lies Betrayed
Swansea 1925
When Stella and her young son are abandoned by her husband she is at the mercy of an unscrupulous neighbour who lusts after her.
Stella believes she is saved when her husband returns, but she is devastated to learn that her husband has no intention of remaining with her. He is leaving for Australia to start a new life. A life Stella can have no part of for he no longer loves her.
Yet Stella's husband has a desperate favour to ask of her, and giving her no choice he leaves her with an added burden though her husband knows that Stella is already challenged by poverty.
He also leaves a terrible secret.
| |  | | Daughter of Shame
Jenni, a young innocent girl, must escape her dreadful past but when she thinks she has finally found happiness the past catches up with her.
When Jenni's father is convicted of her mother's murder, the beautiful Sarah, she is devastated.
Made an outcast by the people of the small mining community where she was born, Jenni flees to the nearest town looking to escape her past and make some kind of life for herself.
Here she believes she has found true love but is cruelly betrayed by the man she adores.
Her shameful past then catches up with her. An unscrupulous blackmailer snares her within his vicious grasp. | |  | | Her Mother's Sins
Swansea 1900
In the Meg Hutchinson tradition comes a story of evil and redemption, set in turn-of-the-century Swansea.
Synopsis Innocent Swansea beauty, Elvi Lloyd is bitterly ashamed of her mother's profession - Sybil scrapes a living by holding fraudulent seances for gullible middle-aged women. Then, a prosperous shopkeeper named Bernard Pomfrey comes into their lives, and Sybil thinks vainly that he's falling for her mature charms. But Bernard, who leads a double life, is more evil and vicious than either Sybil or Elvi can imagine. He has set his mind on having his wicked way with innocent seventeen-year old Elvi before forcing her into prostitution, while at the same time ensnaring her mother in a schem | |  | | Keeping Secrets
Set in two time periods, the early 1930s and the last quarter of the 19th. century, this is a story of tender young love and a faithless marriage.
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This book offers a bittersweet saga of conflict and heartache set in the 1930s from this popular Welsh author. Gillian Finch and Dorothy Prosser are firm friends as well as cousins. For four years they have kept their friendship secret in the face of the bitter feud that has broken out between their respective families over the will of the family matriarch, Rose Prosser. Siblings, Henry Prosser and Vera Finch are at loggerheads over it and Vera is convinced that Henry has cheated her.It is not the only secret. When Gillian and Dorothy fall head over | |  | | Mothers and Daughters
1910 When Lucy and Eva discover they are the illegitimate daughters of a bigamist their safe protected lives are turned upside down. They face disgrace and poverty.
Lucy and Eva discover that their deceased father was a bigamist, leaving them illegitimate and penniless. Brought up in middle-class Edwardian England they are ill-equipped to earn a living. Then Lucy falls into the clutches of a ruthless loanshark. When she cannot pay off the loan he demands repayment in kind and will not take no for an answer. | |  | | No Child of Mine
When a child in desperate need is denied by her father who can she turn to for help in surviving?
Beth discovers she is illegitimate and that the man she thought of as her uncle is her real father. Left penniless she turns to him for help but he casts her off and cruelly denies her as his daughter.
But her father Dan is not content with denial of her. He plans to destroy her utterly.
| |  | | Take My Child
Swansea, 1915. Ruth's fiercely religious father forbids her to marry her sweetheart David which breaks her heart.
Instead of her sweetheart, David, Ruth's father forces her to marry the dour and self-righteous village pastor. David joins the army to escape his heartbreak. When he returns, David finds that Ruth has borne a son and that their tightly-knit community has begun to gossip, firing frightening murderous jealousy in her husband. Ruth must do whatever it takes to protect her baby.
| |  | | The Stolen Baby
Swansea 1853 The Roxton Fair comes to the backwater village of Cwmrhyddin Cross and brings with it the illegal bare-knuckle boxing booth. Death follows in its wake.
Bronwen thinks only of saving her father from serious injury or even death in the illegal bare-fist boxing ring. But Bronwen is in even greater peril for if the unscrupulpous pair who are promoting the fight find out who she really is they will not hesitate to kill her. A winning Welsh saga in the vein of Meg Hutchinson |
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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