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Set in a farming community in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1850s, the story follows the fortunes of Tom Moffat, the son of a master shoemaker, Alfred, whose infatuation with Evelyn Hackett, a lady with a past, leads him to disinherit his son, cheating Tom out of his birthright.

Mary, a Scottish Drover’s daughter and her unborn child, are abandoned...

While Cannons Roar is set in the Crimean War 1853 -- 1856 when a family of friends and neighbors follow the drums and perform their duties against the background of cannon thunder. Sir Martin Lonsdale’s son, Jonathan as Major in the Richmondshire Rifles, leads action against the Russians at the bloody battle of Alma and during the long-suffering...

Returning from service in the Crimea, Yorkshireman Tom Moffat renews his acquaintance with the Lonsdale family of Ainley Hall and Colonel Arthur Stillwell of the Richmondshire Rifles. With their help, Tom secures employment as a railway engineer on the Great India Peninsular Railway. During his time in India, native troops mutiny, and Indian...

Many paths cross during World War II for Richard Moore in England and, later, in India and Burma. The conscripted schoolmaster, leaving behind a wife and two children, mourns countless tragedies and questions his strength to be the leader his commanders and troops expect him to be.

Emma Hanson, a company wife, feels the need to do more than plan...

When Sir Martin and Lady Annabelle are reported lost at sea, their daughter Amelia is left to manage the Lonsdale estate on her own until after a dramatic rescue her parents return to Ainley Hall.
Meanwhile, on the death of Hector Fallon of Ingleside Manor, his nephew Colonel Arthur Stillwell serving in India resigns his commis- sion and as sole...

The Lonsdales of Ainley Hall is a fast-flowing story of intrigue, skullduggery, romance and adventure set in the 1830s against the background of the illegal slave trade. Slaves from the Caribbean are smuggled into the Yorkshire dales in England by the unscrupulous Hiram Calvert whose hold over the Lonsdale estate encourages him to tighten his...