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Jessica Blair
By the Author
The Life She Left Behind
As a young widow with futures to secure for her two daughters, Glenda McKinley is torn between remaining at her beloved estate Pinmuir in the…
Tread Softly, Alice
At the age of eighteen, Alice Ware is pretty, charming and impetuous. Back home in Yorkshire at the start of a new century, she is…
Just One More Day
When Britain declares war on Germany in 1939, Carolyn Maddison is still a schoolgirl. Her elder brother Alastair wastes no time in joining the RAF…
Whispers in the Snow
A gorgeous Christmas novella from enchanting saga author Jessica Blair . . . December 1964. Kate Slater has been brought up in London by an…
A Tapestry of Dreams
Ambition, greed, betrayal - can love survive? 1850. Susannah Charlesworth loves the open air life of the North Lincolnshire Wolds. She stands to become a…
In The Silence Of The Snow
French-born Marie Gabin forms a friendship with Veronica Attwood in their final two years at school, but this is tested when Marie is forced to…
The Road Beneath Me
When Kate Swan's overbearing father demands that she obey him by marrying a man she despises, she refuses and is cast out of her comfortable…
Secrets Of The Sea
In the early days of the 19th Century Whitby is a thriving port. Both the Coulson and the Campion families make a living by the…
Reach For Tomorrow
The year is 1891. Marie Newton is the daughter of a famous painter, Arthur Newton, and she has inherited much of her father's skill. Luckily…
Time & Tide
The death of her mother in 1813, brings added responsibility to seventeen-year-old Anna Mason. A self-confident girl, she has to shed her girlhood sooner than…
Dangerous Shores
When John Mitchell inherits property from a distant relative, he and his family move from a comfortable living in Whitby to a large country estate…
Yesterday's Dreams
Local Whitby girl, Colette Shipley has become fascinated by the mysteries of the new art of photography and begins to create a record of her…
The Restless Heart
Olivia Coulson is pretty and determined enough to attract any man's eye. George Chilton-Brookes, heir to the Cropton estate, is visibly enchanted by her, while…
The Long Way Home
Lydia Middleton faces a bright future, secure in the knowledge that her childhood sweetheart, David Drayton, will one day be her husband. Their parents heartily…
Wings Of Sorrow
Scarborough, 1938. When Jane and Nell are brought together by a chance encounter, Jane, unhappy at home, sees an opportunity to escape when Nell invites…
Echoes Of The Past
Recently widowed, Katherine Chambers takes her young son to visit her husband's family when disaster strikes. The ship they are sailing on runs into a…
Portrait Of Charlotte
Struggling artist Richard is persuaded by his benefactor to leave his home town for the grand salons of London. He is encouraged to paint the…
The Locket
When Emily Thornton discovers a will linked with the murder of a sea captain in Hull in the 1860's, she is determined to discover what…
Secrets Of A Whitby Girl
Whitby 1901. Sarah Brook has kept diaries for most of her life. Now eighty-five and at the end of her own journey, she allows her…
The Seaweed Gatherers
It is 1802, and when her beloved father dies, Lucy Mitchell's curiosity is fired by his last words, "the de Northbys owe you". Who are…
The Restless Spirit
When Sam Harland returns a World War I hero to St Robin's Bay on the Yorkshire coast, he brings with him a French wife. He…
The Other Side Of The River
The Other Side of the River tells the story of Gennetta Turner, whose father owns a large jet-carving company. Competition between the companies is intense,…
The Red Shawl
Young David Feernley is determined to escape the drudgery of his life as a Yorkshire farmhand. Setting off for the coast, his aim is to…
A Distant Harbour
A story of seafaring men and the women who love them, by the author of "The Red Shawl". Captain David Fernley has made and lost…
Stay With Me
Whitby, 1879. Following the death of her parents in the Tay Bridge disaster, twenty-three-year-old Lena Carnforth expects to inherit at least half of her father's…
Sealed Secrets
1858 - When a wheel breaks on 20-year-old Betsy Palmer's trap as she is crossing the North York Moors on her way to Rosedale with…