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To be a Lady - 'But, Dad, I want to be a lady!' Southampton, 1954. Bryony Travis is the daughter of Dan Travis, a second-hand car dealer who also deals in stolen goods. An avid reader of Tatler magazine, Bryony longs to escape her father's shady associates and meet sophisticated people with good manners. When a wealthy barrister buys a car from her father, she is introduced to his handsome son, James Sinclair. Through James, Bryony steps up into the high society circles which she has always yearned to be part of and has a fine time, going to Ascot, dining at the Savoy. However, she soon gets a shock when she discovers that the aristocracy and her father's gangland friends aren't as different as she'd imagined...

Every Time you say Goodbye - After a two-year courtship, Kitty Freeman agrees to marry Henry, fulfilling the expectations of both families. But their contented, settled existence is to change when Henry is called up to serve king and country in WWII. Being apart makes them both realise what true, passionate love is - for Henry falls for a Frenchwoman and Kitty is deeply enamoured with Guy Buckmaster, an American Lieutenant stationed in Southampton. Despite the fact that Henry, away from home, is free to follow his heart, Kitty is plagued by her conscience and the marriage vows she made. As confusion threatens to tear her apart, her loyalty to her family is questioned further, putting her very life in danger. Will she make the right decisions to ensure her future is a happy one?

For Love or Money- Connie Ryan has wanted to be a star from the age of ten. It is her destiny, of that she is convinced. But, coming from a working class family, there seems little hope of her achieving her ambition. Then the chance of a lifetime is offered to her when bookmaker Les Baxter, a rich and powerful older man with friends in all the right (and wrong) places, offers to become her benefactor and manager. At just eighteen, Connie has a wise head on her young shoulders and makes sure that Les's interest is strictly business. But as Connie climbs the ladder of success, Les begins to change towards her. Connie's passage along the trail to stardom is stormy and sometimes dangerous until she eventually has to make a choice - will it be love or money?

Nothing is for Ever- Following the loss of her fiancé in WW1, a devastated Flora Ferguson arrives in Southampton, alone and desolate. With the love of her life gone for ever, she determines to devote herself to the street-children who live around the docks and to free them from their poverty and squalor. But through this sacrifice comes unexpected fulfilment, for not only does Flora find her work wonderfully rewarding, but she finds a new degree of happiness through her friendship with the handsome and dedicated Dr Richard Goodwin – a man who shares her compassion and desire to help. Comforted by their closeness, Flora pushes away the thought that if only Richard weren’t married to the spoilt and selfish Lydia, he may have been the one to mend her broken heart...