With deeply scarred hearts Annie and Sam need answers
Annie White, freed after serving her seven years as a convict in Sydney, gets a visitor who will change her life. She starts a baking business, and just as it’s making a profit, she’s then asked to assist another freed convict, named Sam Corbett. Annie nurses him back to health, they marry and they settle into a life together. Sam has his own past laid bare. They both must face their accusers, and they find that the answers to their questions are not what they thought.Their life experiences seem to cling tightly to them both, unable to shake it; finally, they end up back in England, facing their ghosts and discover they are not whom they think they are. How can they turn their anger and spite into love and forgiveness? The Dance of Life goes on.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Dancing-Tune-Unlikely-Convict-Ladies-ebook/dp/B09JC378YV/ref=monarch_sidesheet

Maggie Armstrong grew up with tales of blood feuds and border raids, but she never imagined her father was actually one of the infamous border reivers who filled his stories. Not until he whisks her back four-hundred and fifty years to his Scottish home, that is. Though enchanted at first, reality soon sets in when her uncle announces his intention to see her betrothed to Ian Rutherford, the son of a neighboring laird. Her twentieth century sensibilities are outraged, but refusal to agree could ignite a blood feud. Maggie's worlds are colliding. Betrayal, treachery, and a tragic murder have her questioning whether she wants to remain or try to make her way back to her own time. To make matters worse, tensions escalate when she stumbles across handsome Englishman Will Foster. But could he be the hero she's always dreamed of, or will his need for revenge against Ian Rutherford shatter more than her heart?



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DIAMONDS, LOVE AND MONEY
but there’s much more to life.
Luke’s Story
Luke, the youngest Lockley son, has completed University, and his life has no direction. No job, no money and no love. Desperately alone, he prays for guidance, and his brother Wills turns up with a suggestion. Reverend William Clarke needs assistance on a Government Mineral Survey. Would Luke be interested in joining the expedition? The challenge, adventure and their finds are life-changing for many. However, it gives Luke meaning, purpose and direction.
How can Luke trust God has a plan for him if he can’t even work out how to get a job? He does the only thing he can… he prays.
Within a week, life has changed... oh how it has changed! The condition of his heart problems also takes a turn. Can he walk away?
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09NH1MLXZ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3

GOLD IS FOUND AND SO IS LOVE
Wills story
How can one simple question change so many people?
It’s the 1840s and discoveries across the Blue Mountains continue. Major Mitchell's new road is complete, towns are planned and being built. Abundant land is available for those who want it.
William “Wills” Lockley, 18, has laid a solid foundation for a respectable career as a blacksmith, but the Lockley lust for adventure flows deeply within his veins. He dreads the monotony of work at the blacksmith's forge and yearns for adventure in a new frontier.
Wills meets six Englishmen who have the means to make his dreams come true. What they discover change the Colony and their lives forever. Gold fever ensues.
Now on the road West, Wills has to deal with an uncertain romance. Does she even want him?
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B08T6NS3XX/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2

A love story, in more ways than one
Eddie’s story

Parramatta in the 1830s is a small town where convicts and ruffians abound. But for those who are willing to work for it, there are opportunities around every corner. The Lockley family are determined to embrace every one of them.
Charles Lockley quickly becomes a trusted member of the community. After helping quell a mutiny on the long journey from England, he is granted a Ticket of Leave and becomes the Government Stores Keeper in Parramatta whilst also running an Inn with his wife, Sal.
As their families future and their faith, is intertwined with their new homeland where the class system of old is almost non-existent, their second son Eddie, a hard working blacksmith and will become the unassuming hero.
How does Eddie cope with the change in his life’s direction?
https://www.amazon.com.au/Hands-Upon-Anvil-Lockleys-Parramatta-ebook/dp/B08TB51L19/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=sara+powter&qid=1612081157&sr=8-1

Fourteen-year-old June Baker never in a million years thought she’d be dressing like a boy, sneaking into a hobo camp, and jumping onto a moving freight train to travel across the state of Tennessee. But that’s what she has to do to find work so her family’s farm can survive.

It’s 1933, and the Great Depression is spreading misery throughout America. Where once June was sitting on top of the world, now she’s carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. Once she was picking fruit from the pawpaw trees, and now she’s picking up the pieces of a family torn apart. Once she was climbing and falling from trees, and now she’s jumping from moving trains.

June knows the risks. What she doesn’t know is that the railroad bull she’s falling for has a devastating secret that will change the course of her life.

“Overall, a page-turning, heart-wrenching, occasionally thrilling read about one family’s struggle to survive.” — BookLife

When Alys’ older brother Hob leaves England—and her—to follow Robin of Locksley to Jerusalem for a Holy War, she expects Robin to do all he can to bring her brother home safe. Robin returns and causes havoc in Nottinghamshire, threatening everything Alys holds dear. Hob is still at war. Her family has lost their home. Alys blames Robin for everything.

The Sheriff of Nottingham promises Alys that, with Prince John’s favor, he has the power to bring Hob home and restore their family to their village farm. All Alys has to do is infiltrate Robin’s band of merry thieves to help bring the outlaws to justice.

Alys is confident she’ll have Hob back within a year…until she discovers everything she thought she knew about the outlaws was wrong.

Molly Thomas is a feisty, independent soul, born on the Winter Solstice. At every stage of her life, she has faced troubles. As a young woman, her family are evicted from their home at Christmas. Molly swears vengeance on the jealous neighbour and land agent responsible, Flann Montgomery. Then in 1896, her baby son is taken from his pram.

While Molly searches the streets for little Oliver, the police are called but her baby is gone. Why does trouble seem to follow Molly? And will she ever find out what happened to her child?

Her father is a hero. Her mother is despised. Can she love them both without her family being destroyed?

Horatia Nelson Ward has a terrible secret. She is the illegitimate daughter of British hero Admiral Lord Nelson, while her mother is the despised Lady Hamilton. And if she claims her heritage to redeem herself, she'll ruin her children.

Her silence is tearing her apart. Concerned loved ones coax her to disclose. But a sixty-year-old promise of silence seems impossible to break.

Horatia's Secret is a compelling historical fiction novel. If you like rich period detail, tenacious heroines, and evocative dialogue, then you'll love Lily Style's epic journey into an overlooked past.
Read Horatia's Secret for an unprecedented glimpse into the lives of Nelson's family!

Guardians at the Wall is a gripping dual timeline historical adventure novel set at Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologists uncover artefacts that connect them to the life of a Roman centurion in second century Britannia.

Meet Daniel, a soldier serving the king of Gaeson and the spirited and wise Princess Evelyn. Yet the mystery behind his earliest memories of being lost in the snow demands to be solved.

In 1663 Lidia Wardell walked naked through the Newbury meetinghouse in protest of Puritan treatment of Quaker women. For this crime she was publicly whipped. As Lidia endures 20-30 stripes to her back, she recalls the events that led her to the whipping post—“a detailed, fascinating read”; “riveting historical fiction…a remarkable story of one woman’s courage, strength, and determination…that will make you think, and even question, just how much our society has really learned”; “a truly compelling read out of limited historical records”; “you almost feel every single lash right along with Lidia”.