National Network for Equitable Library Service

"In 1931 during the Great Depression sisters Sophie and Rose join the Toronto Dressmakers' Strike and the fight of their lives."--Back cover

Lady Olivia Granville is a lovely, headstrong scholar. Anthony Caxton is a pirate. However, he, too is keenly intelligent and independent.

In order to inherit a fortune, Jasper Sullivan, Earl of Blackwater, must rescue a "fallen woman." So when a lady of the night attempts to pick his pocket, he makes a daring proposal.

Lady Serena Grantley was born to the nobility, but fortune's whim placed her in control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her beauty to lure young men to his gambling tables.

Comely Alexandra Douglas is in London, reeling from news of her father's death--and of her disinheritance.

It is 1937 Poland, and Miriam is devastated when her grandparents tell her that they can no longer survive as a family, and that the only solution is for David to go to an orphanage.