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After accidentally killing her drunken husband in an abandoned barn where they’ve holed up for the winter, Emma flees for her life, hitting the open road, taking on a new identity, and reaching a seedy part of London, where she takes shelter under the roof of a dashing, mercurial stranger who has sworn off women as heartily as she has sworn off men.

Dragged to London’s Smithfield Market in a halter to be auctioned off like a barnyard animal by her abusive husband, Iris is rescued from a stampede by a handsome stranger who offers to buy her. But her dream of finding happiness with him is shattered when he takes her home and fails to consummate the marriage, relegating her to a servant’s bed in the kitchen. Iris perseveres, bearing the humiliation and frustration of living in the shadow of his late wife, trying to please her new husband and his hateful daughter, and failing miserably. All seems lost until a handsome stranger shows up...

Upon the death of her mother, flower girl Candice Cane is thrown into the mean streets of London. She finds herself at the mercy of a nouveau riche speculator until a handsome man hired to make her presentable for a Christmas ball shows her a new way of being while attempting to use her for a different purpose.

Cast into the dangerous streets of Southwark when her father goes to debtor’s prison, Morgana turns to her mother’s forbidden profession to try to save her family. Can she dodge the law, avoid a lecherous landlord, and ever hope to win the heart of her secret love, a disgruntled client who has set his sights on another woman?

Raised as a lowly servant on a grand estate, Holly has reason to believe that the heir to the family fortune plans to declare his love for her at Christmas. But the arrival of unexpected guests threatens the budding romance with the revelation of an already-existing promise to marry. Can an ancient Yuletide legend be invoked to save their love, or must Holly bear the pain of seeing her childhood sweetheart betrothed to someone else?

Born into a band East End pickpockets, Alice fantasizes about taking over her father’s gang. But she meets her match when an artful and mysterious “rogue dipper” turns up, threatening the balance of power in the neighbourhood and stealing her money as well as her heart.

After the unexpected death of her father, Lillian Tallent and her family become destitute, and Lillian, who dreams of being on the London stage, finds herself cleaning a derelict boarding house run by her mother. A chance encounter with a budding artist launches a modelling career that saves her family and ushers in her first romance. But when Lillian attracts a wealthy patron and enters the luxurious world of the rich and privileged, what seems like a dream come true spirals down into a nightmare, threatening to destroy her love, along with her career.

Stranded and destitute after her mother’s untimely death and a frightening morning fire at her derelict London lodgings, orphaned flower girl Mary McGinness sinks even deeper into desperation when she’s accused of stealing. Terrified of being sent to prison, she flees the only world she’s ever known — the chaos and uncertainty of the London flower market — to hit the wintry road north on Christmas Eve in search of family, shelter and a better way of life. Woefully unprepared for the journey, she braves the elements without food, money, or protective clothing, unaware that the man ...

Orphaned at a young age in the slums of Whitechapel, Lucy makes a promise to a childhood sweetheart before being ripped away from the only place she’s ever known. Enduring years of gruelling work as a domestic at a grand estate in the countryside, she’s suddenly called back to London under mysterious circumstances. As she navigates her new role in upper crust society, will she ever find her long lost love and fulfill her promise?

Forced to toil as a common servant after her widowed father rushes into a second marriage, Charlotte struggles to endure the degradation and humiliation of working as a domestic in her family’s ancestral home. Can she free herself from the punishments of her spiteful stepmother? And when the county’s most eligible bachelor falls for her, will she find the courage to reveal her true identity and claim the love and position that are rightfully hers?