Ellen Jebeau's ruthless ambition left her son, Joseph, with a traumatic heritage. Would he ever emerge as his own true self?

When businessman Samuel Fairbrother decides that his new status in life demands a home more in keeping with his recent wealth, he sets out to fine the perfect house. But the thirty-four room mansion he buys comes complete with a headstrong staff and a set of problems he never anticipated. Butler Roger Maitland has no respect for his new boss, considering him nothing more than an upstart. Soon Samuel and Roger are locked in a battle for supremacy of...

Dr. Rodney Prince, having delivered Kate Hannigan's illegitimate daughter, becomes enthralled with the much-abused young woman, and over the years their feelings for each other grow into a love they will have to flaunt society to acknowledge.

Set in Catherine Cookson's native northern England in the late nineteenth century, this saga tells of the love between Nathanial Martell and Maria Dagshaw. Together they have six children, and to all appearances they are a caring and proud family. But Maria and Nathaniel never married, and as a result their children are scorned and treated as outcasts by their fellow townspeople. The family perseveres in spite of this difficult existence, but the...

Gravedigger John Gascoigne lives in Downfell Hurst with his wife, Florrie, their three children and his mother, Gran. John is a deep thinker but extremely taciturn--a man of few words and many grunts. Which is why everyone is alarmed when he's hit on the head by a cricket ball, and it suddenly seems as if the words won't stop. What's more, he says he is talking to Saint Christopher--only no one else can see the saint, and they're beginning to worry...