Believing in Tomorrow


 Dancing in the Moonlight
 By Rita Bradshaw
 As her mother lies dying, twelve-year-old Lucy Fallow promises to look after her younger siblings and keep house for her father and two older brothers.
 Over the following years the Depression tightens its grip. Times are hard and Lucy’s situation is made more difficult by the ominous presence of Tom Crawford, the eldest son of her mother’s lifelong friend, who lives next door.
 Lucy’s growing friendship with Tom’s younger brother, Jacob, only fuels Tom’s obsession with her. He persuades Lucy’s father and brothers to work for him on the wrong side of the law as part of his plan to force Lucy to marry him.
 Tom sees Lucy and Jacob dancing together one night and a chain of heartbreaking events is set in motion. Torn apart from the boy she loves, Lucy wonders if she and Jacob will ever dance in the moonlight again . . .
 
 
 Beyond the Veil of Tears
 By Rita Bradshaw
 Fifteen-year-old Angeline Stewart is heartbroken when her beloved parents are killed in a coaching accident, leaving her an only child in the care of her uncle.
 Naive and innocent, Angeline is easy prey for the handsome and ruthless Oswald Golding. He is looking for a rich heiress to solve the money troubles his gambling and womanizing have caused.
 On her wedding night, Angeline enters a nightmare from which there is no awakening. Oswald proves to be more sadistic and violent than she could ever have imagined. When she finds out she is expecting a child, Angeline makes plans to run away and decides to take her chances fending for herself and her baby. But then tragedy strikes again . . .
 
 
 The Colours of Love
 By Rita Bradshaw
 England is at war, but nothing can dim land girl Esther Wynford’s happiness at marrying the love of her life – fighter pilot Monty Grant. But months later, on the birth of her daughter Joy, Esther’s world falls apart.
 Esther’s dying mother confesses to a dark secret that she has kept to herself for twenty years: Esther is not her natural daughter. Esther’s real mother was forced to give up her baby to an orphanage – and now Joy’s birth makes the reason for this clear, as Esther’s true parentage is revealed.
 Harshly rejected by Monty, and with the man Esther believed was her father breathing fire and damnation, she takes her precious baby and leaves everything and everyone she’s ever known, determined to fend for herself and her child. But her fight is just beginning . . .
 
 
 Snowflakes in the Wind
 By Rita Bradshaw
 It’s Christmas Eve 1920 when nine-year-old Abby Kirby’s family is ripped apart by a terrible tragedy. Leaving everything she’s ever known, Abby takes her younger brother and runs away to the tough existence of the Border farming community.
 Years pass. Abby becomes a beautiful young woman and falls in love, but her past haunts her, casting dark shadows. Furthermore, in the very place she’s taken refuge is someone who wishes her harm.
 With her heart broken, Abby decides to make a new life as a nurse. When the Second World War breaks out, she volunteers as a QA nurse and is sent overseas. However, life takes another unexpected and dangerous turn when she becomes a prisoner of the Japanese. It is then that Abby realizes that whatever has gone before is nothing compared to what lies ahead . . .
 
 
 A Winter Love Song
 By Rita Bradshaw
 Bonnie Lindsay is born into a travelling fair community in the north-east of England in 1918, and when her mother dies just months later Bonnie’s beloved father becomes everything to her. Then, at the tender age of ten years old, disaster strikes. Heartbroken, Bonnie’s left at the mercy of her embittered grandmother and her lecherous step-grandfather.
 Five years later, the events of one terrible night cause Bonnie to flee to London, where she starts to earn her living as a singer. She changes her name and cuts all links with the past.
 Time passes. Bonnie falls in love, but just when she dares to hope for a rosy future, the Second World War is declared. She does her bit for the war effort, singing for the troops and travelling to Burma to boost morale, but heartache and pain are just around the corner, and she begins to ask herself if she will ever find happiness again.
 
 
 Beneath a Frosty Moon
 By Rita Bradshaw
 It’s 1940 and Britain is at war with Germany. For Cora Stubbs and her younger siblings this means being evacuated to the safety of the English countryside. But little does Cora know that Hitler’s bombs are nothing compared to the danger she will face in her new home, and she is forced to grow up fast.
 However, Cora is a fighter and she strives to carve out a new life for herself and her siblings. Time passes, and in the midst of grief and loss she falls in love, but what other tragedies lie around the corner?
 As womanhood beckons, can Cora ever escape her troubled past and the lost love 
 One Snowy Night
 By Rita Bradshaw
 It’s 1922 and the Depression is just beginning to rear its head in Britain, but Ruby Morgan is about to marry her childhood sweetheart and nothing can mar her happiness. Or so she thinks. An unimaginable betrayal by those she loves causes her to flee her home and family one snowy night.
 Crushed and heartbroken, Ruby vows that, despite the odds stacked against her, she will not only survive but one day will show the ones she left behind that she’s succeeded in making something of herself. Brave words, but the reality is far from easy.
 Dangers Ruby could never have foreseen and more tragedy threaten her new life, and love always