Kirjahaku

A rollicking Roundheads and Cavaliers adventure.It's 1642, and as far as Jacob Emerick is concerned the whole country's gone mad. Bigots tearing it apart. Blooming Politics & Religion, setting the King & Parliament at loggerheads. Thank goodness Jacob's got more sense, he knows, as the family legal expert, that it's up to him to save the family merchant shipping empire from the Puritans and the King's men. They both want the ships and either side will reward anyone who delivers them. Jacob knows that if the money they borrowed to buy the new ship is called in they'll lose the lot. He has to prevent it, keep the ships out of the way of either party, and his head out of a noose for both sides play very rough, murder is their game.

Families support and aid each other don't they? Especially in the Yorkshire Dales, in 1887. Life can be hard but gentle, kindly Tizzie has been a loving help for her brother, Jack, his wife, Maggie, and their three sons & a daughter, Agnes. She is happy to work herself to skin and bones as a dairymaid for them believing they work as hard for her.Tizzie's one dream is to see that Agnes will not suffer her spinster fate but it is sharp young Agnes who helps Tizzie suspect, see and then uncover Jack's and Maggie's treachery. Now she knows what has been done to her Tizzie is determined to set Agnes free. With only her wits to guide her, Tizzie attempts to right years of wrongs and gain Agnes an education and a life.