"Following a bitter divorce, Gabrielle is anxious for a new start, but when her ex gets tangled up in organized crime and is desperate to pay his gambling debts, she discovers just what her former husband is capable of." --

Miranda Fox has devoted much of her life to caring for her elderly father. After his tragic death, she starts to make plans for her future, funded by the inheritance she is sure will be coming her way, but it seems her arrogant and domineering half-brother has very different ideas ... Then a chance encounter with a man who has been given months to live boosts Miranda's confidence, and as their friendship grows she finally learns to stand up for herself...

Can she find freedom against the odds? The Great War is over. Times are changing and Serena Fleming is forced to risk everything. Her dying mother confided a shocking secret which means she can no longer stay in the same house as her bullying father. On her 30th birthday she is set to come into the inheritance that will mean she can escape his iron rule. But little does she know how far he will go to thwart her ambitions, and the extent of his desperation...

Taking a job in a munitions factory during the first World War, Lizzie Kershaw finds independence from her abusive soldier husband and the promise of a new love, which is compromised by her husband's impending return.

When Ella discovers that her husband, Miles, is secretly planning to sell the farm her family has owned for hundreds of years, it's the final straw. Her already rocky marriage is over. Determined to save Willowbrook and protect her disabled daughter, Amy, from a father who doesn't love her, Ella works hard to build the farm into a successful B&B. And when Cameron O'Neal arrives in the Wiltshire village and offers to help Ella, she suddenly finds herself...

An unexpected inheritance offers Libby Pulford the opportunity to escape her abusive marriage and return to her Lancashire roots with her young son Ned. But her domineering husband Steven won't let her go so easily. Just as she's beginning to settle into her new life, Libby's troubled past catches up with her. The one person she can turn to for help is her new neighbour, former police detective Joss Atherton, to whom Libby feels a growing attraction....

In a 19th Century English mill town, Annie leaves home, banished by her stepmother, hoping never to return. But a rape leaves her pregnant and she is forced to return. In need of money and security, Annie agrees to marry Charlie Ashworth, an old, slow-witted junk dealer, but a man who can provide her with a home, thus saving her from slave labor in a mill. A reminder of the harsh conditions under which people lived.