Discover a powerful historical saga set in Victorian Bath, where one woman must fight for freedom, friendship and a second chance.'Heartwarming! ... Hard to put down!' Patricia McBride### 'Skilled and vivid storytelling.' May EllisThis boxset contains the complete Ladies of Carson Street series from Rachel Brimble The Widow's Vow The Foundling's Fortune The Wife's Reputation The Widow's VowFrom a grieving widow... After her merchant husband saved her from a life of prostitution, Louisa Hill was briefly happy as a housewife in Bristol. But then a constable arrives at her door. Her husband has been found hanged in a Bath hotel room, a note and a key to a property in Bath she knew nothing about the only things she has left of him.To a new life as a madam... Knowing the debt collectors will arrive any moment, Louisa must leave everything she knows behind, and move to Bath. But left with no means of income, Louisa knows she has little choice but to return to but her old way of life. But this time, she'll do it on her own terms - by turning her new home into a brothel for upper class gentleman. And she's determined the horrors she was forced to endure in the past are not experienced by the girls she saves from the streets. Enlisting the help of Jacob Jackson, a quiet but feared boxer, to watch over the house, Louisa is about to embark on a life she never envisaged. Can she find the courage to forge this new path?The Foundling's FortuneA young girl's dream... As a girl, Nancy Bloom would go to Bath's Theatre Royal, sit on the hard wooden benches and stare in awe at the actresses playing men as much as the women dressed in finery. She longed to be a part of it all and when a man promised her parents he could find a role for Nancy in the theatre, they believed him. His lie and betrayal led to her ruin.A foundling's ambition... Francis Carlyle is a theatre manager, a man with big dreams, who has finally shed the skin of his secret past as a foundling and is now rich, successful and in need of a new female star. Never in a million years did he think he'd find her standing on a table in one of Bath's bawdiest pubs, entertaining its patrons with her exquisite voice. Nancy vowed never to trust a man again. Francis will do anything to make her his star. As they engage in a battle of wits and wills, can either survive with their hearts intact?The Wife's ReputationHe needs a wife... Industrialist William Rose was a poor lad from the slums who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, but in order to achieve his greatest ambitions he must become the epitome of Victorian respectability: a family man.She has a plan... But the only woman who's caught his eye is sophisticated beauty, Octavia Marshall, one of the notorious ladies of Carson Street. Though she was once born to great wealth and privilege, she's hardly got the reputation he's looking for, but she's determined to invest her hard-earned fortune in Mr Rose's mills and forge a new life as an entirely proper businesswoman. They strike a deal that promises them both what they desire the most, but William's a fool if he thinks Octavia will be a conventional married woman, and she's very much mistaken if she thinks their pasts won't follow them wherever they go.
