1862. Growing up in a small seaside town on the Isle of Wight free-spirited Eveline Stanhope feels t..

Pretty Celia Mardham should have been a success in her London Season but a near fatal riding acciden..

The haughty Beverley family is obsessed with regaining Mannerling the exquisite 17th-century mansion..

Modern notions were all well and good - but where did one find a man to share them? Though Frederica..

The Earl of Tredair has had his fill of balls routs and silly misses and he despairs of finding anyo..

Mannerling the splendid family estate gambled away by Sir Beverley remains the passion of his daught..

Isabella Beverley is blessed with unparalleled beauty but unfortunately has been raised in the most ..

When one of her sisters is attacked by Harry Devers the lecherous son of Mannerling's present owner ..

As one of the two remaining unmarried Beverley sisters Belinda considers herself the last hope for M..

Lizzie is the sixth and youngest daughter of the late Sir Beverley the patriarch who gambled away th..

1867: Nicola Douglas attends a lecture given by Miss Maria Rye the founder of the Female Middle Clas..

They were best friends who never meant to fall in love - but for one of them it was already too late..