Beryl Matthews Books in Order

Jane already dreads working through Christmas, and her cold new boss Saul Devlin makes everything worse. With her job at risk and her mother pushing romance, she sets out to thaw a very frosty holiday season.

Golf professional Kate Palmer loses the job she loves and finds her future suddenly uncertain. As the mysterious Adam Challoner steps in to help, Kate must balance new love, family burdens and old wounds she is not ready to forgive.

Major Harry Sterling becomes Duke of Ranliegh just as suspicion falls over his brother's death. While duty demands a wife and heir, Harry is drawn into treachery, murder and a sparky clash with the last woman he thinks he should want.

Growing up poor in Bermondsey, Rose Webster dreams of something better despite a violent stepfather and a life hemmed in by hardship. Her quick mind keeps hope alive, even after school ends and work begins too soon.

When war erupts, Annie Webster leaves her comfortable new life to join the WAAF and do her bit. As her brothers enlist and her sweetheart takes to the skies, courage and heartbreak arrive side by side.

After her father's death destroys the family's wealth, Eugenie Winford runs from the marriage her mother arranges to save them. Hiding as a servant in Lambeth, she finds real kindness, but the past is still hunting her down.

In 1960, Kate Freeman leaves home for London, hoping to build a life as a photographer. The so-called peaceful years bring family upheaval, grief and growing pains, and Kate soon learns ambition asks a lot of the people she loves.

When her young cousin dies, Angie Westwood adopts three-year-old Danny and becomes determined to protect him. But the mystery of his father follows them to Somerset, where old wartime ties and buried truths could change everything.

Fourteen-year-old Amy Carter can barely read or write, but hardship teaches her to survive. Orphaned after her father's execution and her mother's death, she finds unexpected kindness, and then war threatens the fragile home she has built.

Sold away from her Whitechapel family as a toddler and raised as Eleanor Warrender, Queenie Bonner grows up between two identities. Years later she sets out to find her lost siblings, especially beloved Harry, and learns how painful reunions can be.

Pilot Ruth Aspinall joins the Air Transport Auxiliary as war closes in, while American flyers Jack and Lucy Nelson cross the Atlantic to do their part. In the skies and on the ground, love and danger arrive together.

Dora Bentley is used to managing her younger siblings while their mother works nights, until Harriet vanishes without explanation. With help from a wounded ex-policeman next door, Dora begins uncovering the lies at the heart of her family.

Gertrude Melrose enters 1900 expecting a bright future, until her brother's gambling debts wreck the family's security. Forced to start again, she discovers how much courage it takes to protect the people she loves without surrendering her own hopes.

As the Second World War begins, four London friends rush toward adulthood in different uniforms, and one is forced to stay behind. Their early excitement fades into loss, separation and the hard lessons of wartime.

In 1919, Bob Hunter hopes his father's return will heal his family after years of war. Instead, the damaged veteran brings turmoil home, and Bob must shoulder adult burdens just when happiness with Ruth seems within reach.

Orphaned siblings Hanna and Jack Foster are separated after a train crash shatters their lives. As Jack runs to sea and Hanna builds a fragile new routine, the approach of war threatens to tear apart everything they have reclaimed.

After tragedy strikes her Hampshire household, Beth Langton suddenly finds her future under the control of an unexpected new guardian. As loyalties shift and secrets surface, she must decide whom she can trust with her home and her heart.

Thrown out by her violent father rather than submit to a wealthy predator, teenage Vicki Keats is left alone in 1920 Poplar. Help comes from two mysterious strangers, and finding out why they saved her becomes life-changing.

Widowed young after Dunkirk, Grace tries to keep going in wartime London as work and routine fall away. Joining the War Office with her friend Helen gives her purpose, but rebuilding a life after loss is its own battle.

Twins Lester and Lillia Holdsworth are meant for the stage, until their controlling father forces their lives apart. Then the First World War sweeps them into the RFC and frontline nursing, testing talent, love and endurance.

Penniless after her father's death, Christine Banner heads for the New Forest determined to make a new life. Her rare gift with war horses wins her a place on Lord Frenshaw's estate, but his wounded son Harry brings fresh turmoil.

After an air raid shelter disaster leaves Kathy alone and furious, she throws herself into wartime service. Working for the mysterious Commander Evans forces her to see the war, and the enemy, in a far more complicated light.

When Bert Roberts abandons his wife and three children in London's slums, Jane refuses to let despair win. With help from an unexpected neighbour and a few lucky breaks, she fights for independence, but Bert may still ruin their hard-won new start.

At an RAF base in Lincolnshire in 1943, Nancy Dalton mourns her missing pilot brother while watching new crews head into danger. A growing bond with Canadian airman Steve Allard offers hope, but wartime love comes with a brutal cost.

After watching her attacker walk free in a London courtroom, Hester Stanmore is left shaken but unbroken. As she tries to rebuild her life and seek justice, the enigmatic Daniel Hansen offers help, and the chance of something gentler.