Louise Allen

Miss Danby’s daring proposition… for the Duke First, wealthy ironmaster’s daughter Jessica Danby needs a titled husband. So, upon learning that Alexander, the Duke of Malvern, needs a rich wife, she makes him a convenient proposal… Next, her impetuous marriage offer is swiftly rejected by Alex—who wants to marry for love! Now, Jessica must accept his help in finding another suitor. But as they spend the Season by each other’s side, she realises that their unlikely friendship is becoming something more thrilling!

In celebration of Harlequin's 75th year, we bring you A Season of Celebration Beginning with this captivating Regency romance...Miss Danby's daring proposition for the duke First, wealthy ironmaster's daughter Jessica Danby needs a titled husband. So, upon learning that Alexander, the Duke of Malvern, needs a rich wife, she makes a convenient proposal... Next, her impetuous marriage offer is swiftly rejected by Alex, who wants to marry for love Now Jessica accepts his help in finding another suitor. But as they spend the Season by each other's side, she realizes that their unlikely friendship is becoming something more thrilling From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.A Season of CelebrationBook 1: How Not to Propose to a Duke by Louise AllenBook 2: Wed in Haste to the Duke by Sarah MalloryBook 3: The Kiss That Made Her Countess by Laura Martin

Together for Christmas His Housekeeper's Christmas Wish Accidentally colliding with Tess Ellery on the icy streets of Ghent was not the way Alexander Tempest, Viscount Weybourn, intended to start the festive period. When Tess is left stranded, Alex is honour-bound to take her home…as his housekeeper! And, despite his rule of spending Christmas alone, Tess’ vivacity soon has this Lord determined to make all her Christmas wishes come true! His Christmas Countess Grant Rivers, Earl of Allundale, is desperate to get home for Christmas. But when he stumbles upon a woman all alone in a rundown shack, having a baby out of wedlock, it’s his duty to stay and help her. Grant knows the risks of childbirth, and he’s witnessed enough tragedy to last a lifetime. So, once he’s saved her life, Grant is determined to save Kate Harding’s reputation too…if she will marry a stranger on Christmas Day!

Louise gets a frantic call to take in a damaged and destructive young girl. Separated from her siblings, Sparkle is hostile and angry. A short while after settling in, Sparkle begins to identify as pansexual. A revolution is underway in the Allen household, with Sparkle's transition motivating all of the young people to explore what becoming an adult means for them. But it's Sparkle's escalating behaviour that causes concern. Discovering a dark fact about Sparkle's birth and the shocking events that the children in her house were part of, Louise is desperate for more help - and not just for the child in her care. As Sparkle's erratic and violent behaviour increases, Louise finds herself and her homelife under serious threat.

Shortlisted for the RNA Awards 2024! The friend sheâ??s lovedâ?¦ Is now the husband she must resistâ?¦

The scandal of the season Must be stopped!

From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care.Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20 children taken into care from a single family, and erupts into the Allen household with a volatility that is frightening and disturbing in equal measure. It is only as Louise begins to uncover the secrets of Billy's dark past that she begins to understand what made his family 'untouchable'.'Britain's top foster carer' The Sun'A shining light' Emily Finch, BBC

When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by troubled parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home, neglected, malnourished, and indoctrinated. Louise had to draw on all of her experience as one of Britain's leading foster carers to rehabilitate and change the course of their lives.But with constant attempts to thwart her work, Louise ends up under siege in her own home. Will she succeed or is their fate sealed forever?

Officers from the RSPCA investigate reports of animal cruelty and neglect on a farm, only to discover a 5-year-old boy curled up asleep in a dog bed, amidst filth and squalor. He has severe physical and cognitive impairments, and no one outside the family seems to know of the existence of little Jacob. When he arrives in the Allen household, a terrified Louise wonders how on earth she will cope looking after a child with his level of physical and emotional damage. With the support of veteran social worker, Mary, the fight begins to get Jacob the support he needs - as medical investigations begin to reveal more shocking details about Jacob's story.

From understanding what adoption is, through to step by step guidance on the entire process and the challenges that come up along the way, this is the only book you will need to read on adoption.Written by an author who was adopted herself, who has looked after over twenty children and who works with a fostering and adoption agency that deals specifically with breakdowns, this book will teach you how to confidently navigate the system and build a strong and lasting relationship with your child.Whilst very much being the unvarnished truth, this is an empowering guide that will ensure you feel in control and know where to turn to for help no matter what:With a positive attitude and the right tools, adopting a child can be very rewarding - don't try to overthink it, don't try to love, just do right by them and as you learn about each other the love, kindness and acceptance will grow.

Ashley is a young single mum raising her daughter, Eden, and working hard to do the very best job she can - until one night she can't find a babysitter and makes the decision to leave Eden home alone for a couple of hours, asleep inside a wardrobe. It is an action that begins a terrible downward spiral for both of them. When Eden arrives at experienced foster carer Louise Allen's home, she has entered the care system because her mother is in prison. Eden is five years old and will not speak to any human. She begins exhibiting some other disturbing behaviours alongside the mutism, too, including torturing the family pets she loves. This eventually leads Louise to discover the pain and tragic reality behind Eden's Story.

Sann kärlek /Både överraskad och förorättad ser Lucy att hennes bror bjudit in Jack Gascoyne till julfestligheterna. Efter fem år utan ett ord, kan hon förlåta och ge honom en andra chans? Stjärnfall och magi/ En naken man dyker upp i snöstormen utanför Julias ensliga stuga. Efter noga övervägande släpper hon in honom. Men hur ska man förhålla sig till en okänd och avklädd viscount när julen står för dörren? Majorens julgåva/ Lady Cecilia har lyckats rymma från sin kontrollerande förmyndare, men ett plötsligt snöoväder tvingar henne att söka skydd i major Joseph Crawleys lilla stuga. Hur kommer juldagsnatten att förlöpa?

She doesn't want this baby.She can't look after this baby.She will never be able to love this baby.Little Abby's life begins badly, then just gets worse.Now foster mum Louise and her family must help her deal with the truth of her past to give her the chance of a future.Abby's Story is the latest book in the series THROWN AWAY CHILDREN by author and foster mum Louise Allen.

'Stella is just like a tiny bird. This is my first impression of her. A quiet little sparrow of a girl.'In her brand-new series 'Thrown Away Children', Louise Allen shares the harrowing stories she is exposed to as a foster mother.The first in the series, Stella's Story, tells the astonishing true story of a young girl scarred by an abusive past.Named after the lager that christened her at birth, Stella's life is characterised instability and neglect. Her teenage mother abandons her in the first few weeks of her life, and left in the 'care' of her father, she ends up lying deserted in a house with no food, no water, no clothes, and no warmth.She eventually lands in the care of foster carer Louise, who is determined to change her life for the better. Things seem to be going well - but when Stella has a startling response to having her photo taken, it becomes clear the scars of her abuse run deeper than anyone could have ever guessed.

Den förmögna och världsvana greven Guy Westrope är inte van att stöta på motstånd. Mötet med envisa och spirituella officersdottern miss Hester Lattimer blir något av en chock då det visar sig att hon är mer än Guy kan hantera. Rykten om spökerier skrämmer inte bort Hester från hennes nyinköpta hus i den idylliska byn på landet. Även om hjärtat säger att hon kan lita på den stilige greven som nyligen flyttat in i huset mittemot, inser Hester att hon bör vara försiktig. För oavsett om Guy ligger bakom de märkliga incidenterna eller inte, måste hon se till att skydda sin hemlighet!

A memoir covering Louise Allenâ??s abusive childhood in a foster home, how she survived and how she hopes to right old wrongs now by fostering children herself and campaigning for the improvement of foster care services.

From Corinthians to Hell-Born Babes - The Regency underworld revealedFrancis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue and later versions and editions contain hundreds of words and phrases that take us into a colourful, violent and alien late Georgian and Regency world. Here we encounter criminals, gamesters, sportsmen, gentlemen and prostitutes as they fight, cheat, thieve, gamble and carouse their way through London's underworld.The dictionaries themselves are all arranged in alphabetical order of the terms being defined, making it impossible to find a word for a specific thing, or browse related terms, without reading through the entire volume. This book arranges the words and phrases from two editions of Grose, Pierce Egan's version of the book and John Bee's Slang: A Dictionary to make them accessible both thematically and by an index.This book is designed for anyone interested in the period, its language and what it reveals and can be used alongside the dictionaries themselves - available in both reprints and e-versions.

Long before the Victorians the Georgian elite made the English seaside their playgroundDiscover the invention of the English seaside holiday in the days when royalty was ruthlessly dunked beneath the waves, when lodging houses catered for dukes and where resort visitors ranged from dying consumptives to marriageable misses to scandalous rakes - and the Prince Regent at his most outrageous. From the origins of sea bathing in the 16th century to the pinnacle of sophisticated Assembly Rooms, hotels and bathing establishments, this book charts the rise of the English seaside resorts before the arrival of the railways in the 1840s heralded the arrival of mass tourism and changed the way the English took their holidays for ever.Long before the Victorians every English county with a coastline had its resort with piers, sandcastles on the beach, donkey rides, sea bathing, souvenirs and the seaside landlady - this is the story of how, and why, they grew.

The stagecoach was the travel wonder of its age: passengers could board a fast coach and be shuttled from one end of the country to the other, stopping only in stages to hitch up fresh horses and take a little light refreshment at coaching inns. Though coaches first appeared in the sixteenth century, stagecoach travel reached its heyday between about 1750 and 1850, leading to great improvements in British roads, which in return encouraged faster and expanded services. This book details the routes, proprietors and coaching inns, the customers and why they chose to travel, and also the perils of early road travel, including highwaymen. The legacy of stagecoach travel is also explored, making this an essential introduction.

From prize-winning historical novelist Louise Allen, this book presents eight walks through both the London Jane Austen knew and the London of her novels! Follow in Jane’s footsteps to her publisher’s doorstep and the Prince Regent’s vanished palace, see where she stayed when she was correcting proofs of Sense and Sensibility and accompany her on a shopping expedition – and afterwards to the theatre. In modern London the walker can still visit the church where Lydia Bennett married Wickham, stroll with Elinor Dashwood in Kensington Palace Gardens or imagine they follow Jane’s naval officer brothers as they stride down Whitehall to the Admiralty. From well-known landmarks to hidden corners, these walks reveal a lost London that can still come alive in vivid detail for the curious visitor, who will discover eighteenth-century chop houses, elegant squares, sinister prisons, bustling city streets and exclusive gentlemen’s clubs amongst innumerable other Austen-esque delights.