Series: The Goswell Quartet

Alice looked at the young girl standing alone on the platform, sensing the same vulnerability she'd once felt entering the village she now called home. Then, as the child gripped her hand, the pain and sorrow Alice had held in her heart for so long softened... And in that moment, she vowed she'd always protect her - whatever the cost......

She looked down at the sweet little girl - and knew she wouldn't listen to what anyone else said. She had to do what was right. Even if it meant going against everything she was taught to believe and keeping a secret from the person closest to her... England, 1766: Abigail is happily married to James, a tobacco trader turned...

"I had to free it," Eleanor said, and stretched her hand out to the blue butterfly that seemed almost to hover in the air. "I had to let something find what happiness it could, since we cannot." England, 1918: As war ends, across the world, people are trying to heal and recover. But Eleanor still feels broken. The loss of...

She clutched the piece of paper close to her chest, tears welling in her eyes, hardly believing what she had read. Silently thanking Sarah for all she sacrificed, she took the death certificate and slipped it under a loose floorboard—no one must ever find out what she'd done... England, 1868: Orphaned and penniless, 18-year-old Sarah is left the sole guardian...