Shilling Grange Children’s Home Books in Order

Grieving her fiancé, Clara Newton becomes housemother to eight children at a struggling postwar orphanage. With little experience and dwindling funds, she must earn their trust and accept help from a wary neighbour to build them a home.

Clara learns that Shilling Grange will be sold and its children separated, some sent overseas and others to a notorious institution. With their departure approaching, she races to find safe homes and preserve the family they have formed.

Clara's orphans prepare to sing at the Festival of Britain when a troubled new boy threatens their fragile harmony. As she tries to understand him, her hopes for love are complicated by Ivor's responsibilities as a single father.

Clara's engagement to Ivor brings pressure to abandon the orphanage she loves, leaving vulnerable children facing an uncertain future. When catastrophic flooding threatens them all, she must fight for both her family and her calling.

Clara hesitates over Ivor's marriage proposal, afraid it may diminish her care for the orphans. Attacks on their home force her to focus on protecting the children, but an outing intended as a refuge brings fresh danger.