PETALS IN THE ASHES

AMY

When Louise and Bethany fell out with Amy she decided to find a friend on an internet chatroom. She knows it is stupid to go alone to meet someone she has been chatting to - but Zed seems so normal, what can possibly go wrong?

AT THE SIGN OF THE SUGARED PLUM

Set in 17th century London, this is the tale of Hannah, a young country girl who travels to London to work in her sister's sweetmeats shop just as the Plague begins to take hold of the city.

FALLEN GRACE

Grace Parkes has a stillborn illegitimate child and when she and her sister have to leave their flat, torn down in the Victorian slum clearances,she struggles to scrape a living selling watercress. She falls into the clutches of the unscrupulous Unwin family, who run a funeral parlour, and then uncovers a plot to defraud her sister and herself.

MEGAN

At 15 years old Megan discovers she is pregnant. This is the story of how she copes and how friends and family react towards her.

POPPY

Poppy is young, beautiful and clever, and working as a parlourmaid in the de Vere family's country house. But Poppy's life is about to be thrown dramatically off course. The first reason is love - with someone forbidden, who could never, ever marry a girl like her. The second reason is war.

POPPY IN THE FIELD

When devastated Poppy learns that Freddy, the love of her life is to marry someone else, she volunteers her nursing skills overseas. The journey to the hospital in Flanders is full of horrors, and she arrives to find a spiteful ward Sister and unfriendly nurses. But despite her loneliness and homesickness, Poppy finds that comfort for a broken heart can be found in the most unexpected places.

THE REMARKABLE LIFE AND TIMES OF ELIZA ROSE

Eliza Rose goes to London after being thrown out by her stepmother. She is befriended by Nelly Gwynn who introduces her to the court of Charles II where she falls in love with Valentine Howard. Unfortunately she is a lowly maid and he an aristocrat.