Forced from her comfortable life into domestic service, Janey Carhart is determined to make something of life. She eventually finds work as a lady's maid at Bosvenna Manor on the edge of Bodmin Moor. Caught between the two worlds of upstairs and downstairs, and accepted by neither, as she cares for her mistress.
Victoria Cornwall Libri
La scrittura di Victoria Cornwall è profondamente radicata nella sua eredità della Cornovaglia, traendo ispirazione da una storia familiare nella regione che risale al XVIII secolo. Dopo una gratificante carriera di venticinque anni come infermiera, si è dedicata alla sua passione per la scrittura, concentrandosi sulla narrativa storica. I suoi romanzi sono caratterizzati da un forte background narrativo e da una profonda esplorazione delle emozioni innegabili, persino del dolore, che accompagnano l'amore. Cornwall è membro della Romantic Novelists’ Association.







The Thief's Daughter
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Hide from the thief-taker, for if he finds you, he will take you away ... Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty, and the gibbet casts a shadow of fear over the land. Yet, when night falls, free traders swarm onto the beaches and smuggling prospers.
Scoundrels: The Hunt for Hansclapp
- 412pagine
- 15 ore di lettura
There is a rat in the house! Determined to bring their nemesis Gruber Handclap to justice, the Majors embark on a global adventure that features kidnapping in The Congo, manslaughter on the Orient Express and romance at the Stasi's Christmas party. And what's more, they embark on the greatest adventure of all: Fatherhood.
Can you trust a man with no name?Cornwall, 1861Beth Jago appears to have the idyllic life, she has a trade to earn a living and a cottage of her own in Cornwall's beautiful River Valley. Yet appearances can be deceptive ...
Pouta osudu
- 296pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
Po rodinné tragédii najde Janey práci jako společnice lady Brockenshawové na panství v Cornwallu. Osamělá dívka přiláká pozornost dvou mužů – Jamese Brockenshawa, dědice panství, a zádumčivého farmáře Daniela Kellowa, jehož přitažlivosti Janey nedokáže odolat. Bude schopna si sama vybrat a u některého z nich nalézt upřímnou lásku a úctu, nebo se podvolí osudu?
Grace je nejstarší dcera váženého majitele mlékárny a žije poklidný a pohodlný život v malebném Cornwallu. Jednoho dne se zde objeví pohledný Talek a s ním přicházejí i pochybnosti o Graceině identitě. Nezbývá než je rozptýlit. Jak se ale ukazuje, kamkoliv se Grace vydá, její tajemství ji bude následovat…