"If you believe this is the worst part of your day, you should brace yourself for the coming storm." On the docks of London men are on the hunt, for John Williams and the love of his life Lady Adelaide. With spies, violence, and murder haunting every step, John has to make powerful friends if he is to keep her safe and take back his shipyard in Motbridge. But, it's not just the Duke of Cramlington hunting them down. There are far greater evils hiding...

"Before he died, his final thoughts were of home." Europe is on the road to war. The year is 1933 and John finds himself in Paris, once again forced to flee for his life. But, when he discovers that his pursuer Ronald Bell is dead, he takes the chance to return to England. But, with the baggage of a dead man and his old friends looking to force him into their service again, John realises he can't start a new life now that he's a rich man. Torn between...

"One day I will escape." Madness has become the defining point of Theodore Norlong's life. After his father followed through on his threat to have him condemned, Theodore was cruelly ripped from reuniting with his true love Gertrude Carnall. Now Bedlam is his home, where he writes a stream of working class propaganda. But escape isn't far from his thoughts. Miles away lives Edward Urwin. After accepting Clive Griggs's offer to join him, life has...

"I'm happy that it's all over. Now we can all start again." Together again, Theodore Norlong and Gertrude Norlong are happily married. Free to enjoy their lives together, it doesn't take long for cracks to appear in the relationship. As Theodore makes his desires to become a Member of Parliament clear and Gertrude dedicates herself to saving the women of the slums, marriage and a happy home life become secondary. In the heart of London, Edward Urwin...

"One day he'll get what he deserves." Johann Brandt continues to hide from his brother as the Nazi occupation of Warsaw continues. As the ghetto wall is erected and the Jews are segregated, Johann makes the ultimate sacrifice in an attempt to save them: he joins them in the ghetto. Elsewhere, amongst the muck and the poverty, Oliver Rosen is drawn to a flame in the darkness. Zaneta Krawczak is a young prostitute Oliver takes into the resistance....

"What possible way did he have back now?" Far away from home in New York City, Catherine Urwin lives a life of servants, idle chatter, and submissiveness to her wicked guardian Francis Hortbury. When her painting class is interrupted by local gangsters, she becomes drawn into a series of events that leads her back to England and back into the world of Theodore Norlong and his political adversary Sir John Calderdale. Meanwhile, London is gripped...

"One day, he would return to Britain in triumph and reclaim what he had, worked all his life for. John would survive." Years have passed, since John reclaimed the Imperial Longford shipyard. World War One is on the horizon. From his new base in Southern England, John plots to ramp up his profits and begin an ambitious project to rebuild the whole town of Motbridge. But, there are more, problems than the looming European war. Motbridge's trade union,...

Books 1-7 of the Made in Yorkshire Series Richard Warren is growing up in the picturesque village of Ledder Bridge. Little does he know the march of time is destroying centuries of tradition in the British countryside. With the allure of the cities taking hold, this son of a farmer leaves the safety of Yorkshire and indulges in the delights and the darkness of 20th century London, Newcastle, and Leeds. He never would have guessed this was how his...

Richard Warren, now eighteen, takes his first steps into adulthood. Following his return from London, his parents have booted him out of the nest and he's on the road…residing about ten miles down it with the affluent Spencer family. As the era of glam rock descends upon Britain, Richard is back working at the Ripon Chronicle. With his first love back from London, Richard must contend with a rising career as a journalist that takes him up to Newcastle...

"Erich would never forget the day he betrayed the Third Reich." Reinhard Heydrich is dead. And with it the chances of Erich Brandt ever returning from the Eastern front are also dead. Erich struggles to find a way out of the Einsatzgruppen death squads and back to finish the work he had started in Poland, but thousands of miles away and with the Red Army throwing their whole weight against him his chances are ebbing away. Johann Brandt continues...