Sisters In Love — Mollie Hardwick

The page-turning Atkinson saga continues! Perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson, Anna Jacobs, Libby Ashworth and Kate Morton. As long-buried hurts resurface, are two families about to be torn apart? Lancashire, 1829 When Joe Atkinson returns home to Lancaster from university, his uncle Ephraim is disappointed by his ambition to go into cotton production instead of the law - and dismayed when his nephew's ambition to improve the lives of mill workers brings him into conflict with ruthless mill owner Saul Bradshaw. But the whole family is aghast when Joe's naivety leads him into a rash decision... Back home, tensions run high as Joe's return sows the seed of mischief between his cousins Belle and Dove, now grown into beautiful young women. But tears are not far away as Dove finds herself cruelly spurned, while Belle's feelings for an unsuitable man threaten to lead to disaster... Meanwhile the fragile health of Ephraim's wife Mary is strained when her estranged sister Eleanor Mackenzie reappears out of the blue. A life of luxury with Saul Bradshaw's son Jesse hasn't filled the emptiness Eleanor feels inside - but when a shock turn of events shakes her to the core, she's faced with the most important choice of her life. Are past events about to destroy the lives of a second generation of Atkinsons? And when love blossoms in the most unexpected of places, does it have any hope of surviving? The second book in Mollie Hardwick's spellbinding Atkinson trilogy, SISTERS IN LOVE continues the saga of two families making their way through rapidly changing times in England in the 19th Century. THE ATKINSON FAMILY SAGA SERIES: BOOK 1: The Atkinson HeritageBook 2: Sisters in LoveBook 3: Dove's Nest