Redway Acres

What is an independent woman to do in a world where marrying means losing everything? Pregnant, widowed and rejected by her family, Helena Andrews moves to Redway Acres, where she raises her daughter and trains horses. She befriends an old widower in a ramshackle cottage, the family from the grand estate of Eastease, and their friend Colonel Nathaniel Ackley, second son of the Earl of Aysthill.

Must a woman always be blamed for the mistake she made as an innocent sixteen-year-old girl? Maria Wyndham is the older, more vivacious twin sister of Harriet. After their parents’ deaths, she and her sister move to the grand estate of Eastease and become wards of its owner, Alexander Harker, and their cousin, Nathaniel Ackley. Just in time for a ball for the twins’ sixteenth Birthday, their guardians’ friend, Robert Davenport, arrives to dance and lavish them with gifts. Captivated, Maria vies for his attention, despite Harriet’s interest in the man.

A 2021 SPEAK UP TALK RADIO FIREBIRD BOOK AWARD WINNER! Young Charlie Mickleson from Colbourne near the Welsh border is indentured to farrier Doyle Brewster, but all is not as it should be in Charlie’s world. Brewster and Justice Leland Cavell, who recruited Charlie, subject him to abuse, leading an adolescent Charlie to run away. Charlie finds employment in the stable at Thornbane Lodge in Cambridgeshire, working for the Hopwood family. In the course of his duties, Charlie meets Harriet Wyndham, who offers him the job of stable manager at the larger Wyndham Estate near Bath.