When foster mum Louise takes in little Abby, her challenging behaviour soon turns the household upside down. How can one six-year-old unleash such a whirlwind of emotional and physical devastation? Louise is about to discover the darkness of incest, rejection and abuse in Abby's past. The second story in the 'Thrown Away Children' series.
Money isn't enough to paper over the problems when a wealthy family falls apart at a shocking pace. This is a foster-caring experience like no other, and one which tests Louise's emotional strength to the core.
Foster care expert Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. It is only as Louise begins to uncover the secrets of Billy's dark past that she begins to understand what made his family 'untouchable'.
The Many Sins of Cris de Feaux / The Unexpected Marriage of Gabriel Stone
She needs an heir… But not a husband! Gabrielle Frost knows that marrying any man would mean handing over control of her beloved family vineyard in Portugal to her new husband. She won’t take that risk. But she needs an heir! So when Nathaniel Graystone, Earl of Leybourne, arrives to escort her to London, Gabrielle wonders—what if this former soldier, with his courage, strength and dangerous air, could be the one to father her child?
A memoir covering Louise Allen's abusive childhood in a foster home, how she survived and how she hopes to right old wrongs now by fostering children herself and campaigning for the improvement of foster care services.
A marriage of inconvenience For the buttoned-up Duke!
Stella is just like a tiny bird. This is my first impression of her. A quiet little sparrow of a girl. In her brand new series 'Thrown Away Children', Louise Allen shares the harrowing stories she is exposed to as a foster mother. The first in the series, Stella's Story, tells the astonishing true story of a young girl scarred by an abusive past.
An unconventional friendship Could ruin their reputations...
Rumors fly that Gareth Morant, Earl of Standon, is to be wed. He cannot honorably deny them, but he won't be forced into marriage.Encountering a respectable governess in scandalizing circumstances, Gareth demands her help--to make him entirely ineligible.He educates the buttoned-up Miss Jessica Gifford in the courtesan's arts. But Gareth hasn't bargained on such an ardent, clever pupil--or on his passionate response to her He wanted to cause a stir--it seems they are about to brew a scandal
