Reviews - Historical

In 1885 Moriah Singleton made the long trip from her home in England to Massachusetts to start a new life and hopefully bring her sister Felicity to the new land of America. She worked at The Sterling Shirt Factory where she had found out that her employer was a bully.

In 1836 in England, Morag Douglas is visiting a secret garden with her father where her sister and cousins were mentored into being Followers of the Secret Heart, a secret group of strong women with special gifts. But Morag wasn’t mentored because Imanie suddenly died. She was supposed to mentor her too, but now she is gone and Morag feels left out.

After losing her mother suddenly, Samantha Bruno embarks on a journey to find her brother Angelo. When she is almost set upon by a gang of thugs, she meets Paul and together they embark on a journey to Chicago. An incident tears them apart and ends up with Sam being sold to a brothel and Paul being arrested. This was just as their relationship was beginning to blossom into something more.

Third Duke of Nidderdale, Lord Reeve Malliston is one of the best military men the Duke of Wellington has. However, war scars him mentally and when he returns home with limited hearing and missing fingers, he feels like he is not the same man he was when he left. When his wife passes away, he isolates himself and leaves the care of his children up to others.

So desperate to gain land, Sir Roark agrees to marry Lady Alyss. Unbeknownst to him, she is stubborn and determined to hold onto her family’s land for as long as she can. As they spend more time together, Roark realizes that Alyss is a more intriguing woman than he initially thought. He also notices that his feelings for her are deepening and he must deal with them.

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