The Cockney Sparrow - September 2007

Living in a squalid cellar room in Stew Lane, eighteen-year-old Clemency Skinner picks pockets in order to keep her crippled brother, Jack, and her alcoholic mother from starvation.

One cold winter’s day, her prey turns on her and she is caught by Jared Stone, who offers her the chance to become a professional thief. She turns him down, but fate throws her in the path of Augustus Throop and his band of strolling players.

When he discovers that Clemency has the voice of a nightingale he is only too eager to take her into his group of buskers, much to the annoyance of his jealous daughter, Lucilla. Desperate to get their mother from the clutches of Todd Harman, her ruthless pimp, Clemency and Jack take her with them to the cheap boarding house in Whitechapel where Augustus and his troupe have lodgings.

Despite his physical disability, Jack is a talented musician, and soon the brother and sister form part of the travelling players.

Clemency’s talent is spotted and she finds herself understudying Dorabella Darling, the star of the opera bouffe.

But Jared Stone has other plans for Clemency and Todd Harman is set on revenge …

The Best of Sisters - January 2007

The Thames carried him away from her, but would it bring him home...?

Twelve-year-old Eliza Bragg has known little in life but the cold, comfortless banks of the Thames.

Living above her uncle's chandlery, she has grown accustomed to a life of penury and servitude, her only comfort - the love and protection of her older brother, Bart.

But, one day, Bart accidentally kills a man and is forced to flee to New Zealand.

Alone, barefoot, beaten down and at the mercy of her cruel uncle, Eliza realises that her very survival is at stake...

Tilly True - October 2006

Dismissed from her position as housemaid under a cloud of misunderstanding, Tilly True is forced to return home.

But Tilly is determined to make something of her life and rather than admit the truth to her poverty-stricken family she sets out once more in search of employment.

Her journey takes her to the London law courts, a grim parsonage in one of the most notorious parts of the East End and a house of ill-repute.

But when she falls for the dangerous charms of Barnaby Palgrave, Tilly soon finds that her troubles have only just begun ...

The Dollmaker's Daughters - May 2006

This work talks about two sisters, tragically divided by love, jealousy and ambition

...For Ruby and Rosetta Capretti life in the slums of the East End holds little promise. Although very similar in looks they dream of very different futures.

Coquettish, flamboyant Rosetta is desperate to leave the claustrophobic confines of the sewing sweatshop to follow in her wayward aunt's footsteps and work under the bright lights of the music hall.

Ruby, quieter and more modest, has always longed to train as a nurse - a pipe-dream for a girl from her humble background.

And then, by the side of their father's grave, they meet handsome Jonas Crowe, but little do they know how much one man will affect both their lives forever ...

Mermaids Singing - December 2005

Born into poverty and living under the roof of her violent and abusive brother-in-law, young Kitty Cox dreams of working in a women's dress shop in the West End - a million miles away from the reality of her life as a mud-lark, scavenging on the banks of the Thames.

Fate soon intervenes and Kitty finds herself working as a skivvy for Sir Desmond and Lady Arabella Mableton in Mayfair.

Bullied by the kitchen maids, Kitty is soon taken under Lady Arabella's wing and for the first time in her life Kitty dares to hope. But Lady 'Bella' has a secret and unable to live with her domineering husband she decides to leave, fighting for custody of their daughter, Leonie.

Kitty will do anything for her mistress but her loyalty is severely tested as all their lives are thrown into turmoil and Kitty faces a life of poverty and hardship in the slums of the East End once more.