Linda Finlay

Rowan Clode was eight years old when her mother died. Since then she has treasured the only things she has left of her - an antique mirror and a red ribbon, which she wears around her wrist. Rowan and her father remain close and continue to work on their small farm. But when scheming Fanny Foreshaw wins her father's heart she forces Rowan from her

Isabella Carrington has been brought up in a life of privilege in London. Her life seems perfect, until her father suddenly announces bankruptcy. To save Isabella from destitution he sends her to stay with family she has never met, far away on a violet farm deep in Devon.Isabella is horrified to find her uncle expects her to work for her keep, packing up the flowers and selling them in the nearby market. However she soon discovers that life on a violet...

Christmas joy is in short supply for twelve-year-old Eliza when she is thrown out of her home on a freezing night by her brutal father. As she trudges through the snow over the Devon moors she collapses in exhaustion, chilled to the bone and barely able to drag one foot in front of the other. She is taken in by Fay, who treats her with her own cura