Of Love and Arrangement series by Alice Lockley (#1-4)
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Overview: After living with a disability for several years, and being housebound after a long period of illness, Alice Lockley began to write, she lost herself creating other worlds. A big fan of the Victorian period, she writes about the changing world of an industrialised England, along with the people that populate it.
Genre: Romance, Historical
The Truth of Eleanor Avory (#1): In the late 1840’s a mysterious figure enters one of the worst places in London, she covers her face, and tends to the dying, opposes cruelty and oppression, she is beloved, and in terrible danger from those she defies and her own family. Yet she is famous, a champion of the poor, she is a thrilling tale to read of, and on the lips of all good society. Grace Newbury, maligned, unwanted, and unhappy, was rapidly approaching spinsterhood. But Grace had a secret, a dangerous one, one that a husband definitely wouldn’t approve of, and one that would cause yet more trouble, more than that, ruination, not only to her, but her whole family. When Grace meets Sir Percival, in the midst of her worst humiliation at the hands of her four sisters, her life shifts, and things begin to change. In truth, she knew that her double life, the lies, and the lengths she went to in order to keeps secrets were wearing her down. Being The Angel of Potters Row had once been a thrilling and noble calling, but infamy and her family’s continual contempt for her were warring within. Something had to give, and it was set into motion by a tall dark gentleman, causing Grace’s world to come crashing down.
The Ordeal Of Elspeth (#2): Elspeth Brinkhurst is the daughter of one of the most notorious criminals in 1840’s England, but he is a man with money and power, and she is as all people in his life are, a means to an end. She is beleaguered by her father, his mistress, and her father’s friends, whose intent for Elspeth is less than welcome. When Elspeth makes a grave error in a bid to take charge of her own life, the consequences ripple out, and Elspeth finds herself in an untenable situation. Her actions lead her to be outcast and just another of her father’s pawns. When Elspeth meets the giant Henry Whiston, her life changes, and he appears to be the way out of her father’s machinations and that of his friend, the terrifying Captain Grifton. Making that choice, and defying her father incurs not only his wrath, but also of her father’s mistress, a woman as cruel as her father. Her struggle leads to love, disappointment, a terrible series of events, and the path to hope and family.
The Bitter Heart of Eloise (#3): In 1854 Eloise finds herself at a party with a promise, to meet and share her life’s tale with two other women who can understand what she has endured. Eloise tells her tale here, she relives a past full of hate, anger, and grief. One that is also tempered with love and acceptance. She tells of her family, her abandonment, and the most beautiful man that ever lived, Andrew Chatwyn, one of the most notorious rakes of the day. For the dowdy Eloise, Andrew is a revelation. Her life is a picture of love and adventure, of revenge and tragedy. Yet Eloise, for twenty years, has known there is no happy ending for her, perhaps now, through sharing her past, and finding new friendships, she can have the peace and affection long sought and little looked for through her loyal friend, Jane Colforth. This is not your average romance, the hero does not save the day, Eloise must live with the consequences of her actions, and learn that one might love again, even if it is of an unconventional kind. Can Eloise risk the censure of society once again to hold on to the love she wants?
The Angel of Potters Row (#4): In the late 1840’s a mysterious figure enters one of the worst places in London, she covers her face, and tends to the dying, opposes cruelty and oppression, she is beloved, and in terrible danger from those she defies and her own family. Yet she is famous, a champion of the poor, she is a thrilling tale to read of, and on the lips of all good society. Grace Newbury, maligned, unwanted, and unhappy, was rapidly approaching spinsterhood. But Grace had a secret, a dangerous one, one that a husband definitely wouldn’t approve of, and one that would cause yet more trouble, more than that, ruination, not only to her, but her whole family. When Grace meets Sir Percival, in the midst of her worst humiliation at the hands of her four sisters, her life shifts, and things begin to change. In truth, she knew that her double life, the lies, and the lengths she went to in order to keeps secrets were wearing her down. Being The Angel of Potters Row had once been a thrilling and noble calling, but infamy and her family’s continual contempt for her were warring within. Something had to give, and it was set into motion by a tall dark gentleman, causing Grace’s world to come crashing down.
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