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Elizabeth Gaskell was one of Victorian England's pre-eminent female novelists. Admired by Charles Dickens, who described her as his 'dear Scheherazade', she mingled storytelling and social realism to superb effect in her highly acclaimed fiction. This comprehensive collection comprises dramas and readings of her finest works and some lesser-known pieces.

When overachiever Leena Cotton is ordered to take a two-month sabbatical after blowing a big presentation at work, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen's house for some overdue rest. Eileen is newly single and about to turn 80. She'd like a second chance at love, but her tiny Yorkshire village doesn't offer many eligible gentlemen. Once Leena learns of Eileen's romantic predicament, she proposes a solution: a two-month swap. Eileen can live in London and look for love. Meanwhile Leena will look after everything in rural Yorkshire....

They say blood is thicker than water. That's not going to stop it being spilled. Life hasn't been easy for the Miller family. Finally mum Babs has had one bit of luck. She plans to share the profits with her daughters. She thought they'd be pleased.... But money always causes trouble, especially when it's desperately needed. Jen wants to make a better life for her kids. Tiff owes a lot of bad men a lot of money. And Dee is worried that her husband is getting back into the criminal life.

Her strength is all she has left.... When Dorothy meets Robbie, she falls for him quickly, and it’s not long before the pair are engaged. But then an unexpected pregnancy puts everything at risk, and Dorothy is left alone - with Robbie nowhere to be seen. Heartbroken, Dorothy picks up the pieces of her life as a working girl in Battersea, helping to support her mother and father. But before long, things start to become difficult. Her father’s health is worsening, money is tight and, worst of all, Robbie hasn’t come back for her.

She is a child of the Devil himself. With this newfound knowledge, she must figure out how to use it to save her children and kill someone she once would have died for.

Faith wakes up to realize she has been drugged and her daughter has been kidnapped once more. But this time, not by an enemy, but her best friend Lefty.

Faith finally learned the lessons the hard way that her father Black Ice had been trying to teach her. Trust no one, and you’re stronger on your own, but it is too late after she is betrayed and left for dead?- Find out in The Daughter of Black Ice 3.

Yana and Macy must now stay on the low as their father Black Ice hunts them and their mother. Meanwhile, Ayana escapes with Rachel and tries to think of another plan to kill her sisters.

The anointed soldiers now have the upper hand with the kidnapping of Faith's son and younger brother Mike and they won’t stop until they retrieve the Devil's Bible. The pain and loss Faith dealt with back to back have released who she truly is and only made her stronger. She knows she must stop the anointed soldiers at any cost and finally kill Sabrina. but will she have to kill Michael as well, and will Black Ice help his family or leave them to fend for themselves?

Something inside Ayana has always been fascinated with serial killers and violence; a voice in her head always screams for her to lash out and harm people, pushing her to do things she knows aren't right, but she fights the urge every day to pretend she’s normal.

Ayana won’t stop until her sisters and father are dead once and for all. With the help of Rachel, Black Ice’s first baby mother, and her mother Tiffany, she kidnapped Yana, but soon realized it was a deadly mistake, as Macy hunts them down as if she’s a wild animal out for blood.

Days after graduating from college, Betsabé Ruiz begins her first job on Wall Street, where she plans to save enough money to eventually pursue her dreams of becoming a theatre actress. What she didn’t anticipate was that this job would allow her barely enough free time to sleep or hang out with friends, let alone take acting classes. She didn’t apprehend the magnitude of the wealth that would be swirling about her, either, or how the long hours and close quarters would infuse her professional relationships with intimacy.

Ayana crosses her sisters, leaving them for dead and stealing the only way to bring back their best friend Osis. Thinking of only herself, she discovered a way to make things go back to normal before they were separated. Yana and Macy search for Ayana in hopes to stop her from making a terrible mistake, but time is running out.