Rosie Darling Books in Order

Orphaned sisters Ada and Emma struggle to survive in London's East End after losing their family's business and home. Ada's desperate agreement with a dangerous man threatens to separate them, testing their bond against poverty and exploitation.

After her mother's death, young Jane Walker escapes a cruel workhouse and finds employment in a wealthy household. Her growing attachment to the family's heir offers hope, but class expectations and a hostile mistress threaten the future she imagines.

Orphaned Molly survives Victorian London by picking pockets, protected by her friend Billy after escaping a cruel stepfather. When her life changes unexpectedly, she must confront the past and decide whether love can offer a different future.

Young candle seller Gracie supports her injured father on London’s winter streets. A rescue from thieves binds her to a wealthy family, but an enduring connection with a street boy complicates the loyalties, romances and betrayals of adulthood.

Evie inherits a London club whose wealthy clients trade in secrets and illicit pleasures. Raised to distrust men, she falls for someone who enforces the very laws that could destroy her business and send her to prison.

Claimed from the workhouse by a ruthless family, young Maise is forced to scavenge valuables from the Thames mud. Hoping for the mother she has never known, she struggles against exploitation, poverty and the river’s constant dangers.

Escaping the workhouse leads Gid into a frightening apprenticeship with undertakers, where silence becomes his defence. An isolated heiress develops a dangerous attachment to him, forcing a choice between dependence, devotion and the freedom he has sought.

With her father wrongly imprisoned, sixteen-year-old Anne must support her siblings and save the family toyshop. A predatory lawyer threatens everything they have, while help from a mysterious stranger may carry dangers she has not anticipated.

Rescued from the workhouse by a wealthy uncle, Amelia struggles to belong in a family ashamed of her origins. When an army captain courts her, a childhood friend returns with warnings that threaten her hopes for happiness.

Holly and Maggie flee the workhouse on Christmas Eve and find shelter among a woman’s street children. Their apparent rescue conceals troubling secrets, forcing the girls to navigate danger while Holly still hopes for the Christmas she has imagined.

Born in an asylum and raised in a workhouse, Beth finds a new life as a talented apprentice seamstress. The arrival of a wealthy patron draws her into family secrets involving class, inheritance and the threat of confinement.

Growing up inside a dangerous Victorian cotton mill, Lottie secretly defends children and workers suffering under its cruelty. As she matures, her efforts to resist injustice expose her to a threat more personal than the machinery around her.

Transported to Van Diemen’s Land for stealing food for her siblings, sixteen-year-old Daisy becomes a maid in a threatening household. Determined to survive, she searches for a way to reclaim her freedom and return to England.

Factory life brings Bessie face to face with danger and injustice in nineteenth-century London. After tragedy strikes her family, she joins the fight for workers’ rights while choosing between the security of one man and another’s shared convictions.

Grace’s happy childhood changes when she discovers that her father is a hangman. Harassment and tragedy force her to balance loyalty to him with hopes for her own future, as his troubled work threatens the people she loves.

Mary Talbot protects her younger brother by working for a ruthless gang of orphan pickpockets. When their leader abandons a friend to die, Mary begins planning an escape from the slums before another deadly Christmas arrives.

Driven into Whitechapel’s slums by her husband’s failed ambitions, Ada turns to stealing to support her family. Visits from ghosts revive memories of her workhouse childhood and warn that the choices keeping her alive may destroy her future.

Orphaned siblings Harry and Maddy survive Victorian London by sweeping chimneys and sleeping in cellars. When Maddy hears about Santa Claus, her search across the winter rooftops draws them into discoveries that test both their courage and their hopes.

After a businessman destroys her father’s livelihood and sends her family into the workhouse, Grace survives with a determination to seek justice. Years later, she recruits fellow former workhouse children for an elaborate revenge against the man responsible.