Alice Taylor is no ordinary child and she is about to become aware of her extraordinary magical powers.

In this first volume of The Taylors’ Magical Dynasty series, we travel back to the year 1882 and watch as six-year-old Alice discovers her exceptional potential for the first time, entering a world of phenomena so strange we have few words to describe it.

Soon, she can incorporate her ‘aura colours’ into her magical ‘weaves’ at will and change their characteristics.

Most importantly, she can make her rainbow-coloured aura dance around her body, which unique talent shows she is already a powerful sorcerer.

But at the moment six-year-old Alice Taylor makes her aura dance and discovers her power, she shines out like a beacon to a number of magical seers around the world, exposing herself to forces both good and evil before she’s old enough to combat them.

Not all seers are friendly – and, for Alice, there can be no hiding from destiny.

Lolanda is a naïve teenager when she is persuaded by her older boyfriend to leave Romania for a new life in Spain. Akim promises her a big house, a well-paid job and a white wedding on the soft, white sand of a Costa Blanca beach.

In reality, the ‘big house’ is a brothel and Akim is a violent thug and sex-trafficker. On the day they arrive, he confiscates her passport and sells her virginity to a high-paying punter. It is her sixteenth birthday.

Punishments for disobedience are brutal. She must spend her days sitting at the side of a roundabout, waiting for ‘customers’ to pay for sex with her, always under the watchful eye of Akim and the other pimps. When they discover that she has tried to run away, she is confined to ‘working’ in the brothel, shut off from the light of day.

After years in captivity, Lolanda at last escapes by jumping from an upstairs window. She believes she has killed Akim in self-defence. Will the traffickers find her and kill her? Will they kill her family, as they’ve threatened so many times?

Will Lolanda ever recover from the trauma, Complex- PTSD and flashbacks to her life of hell in sex captivity?

In the shadow of WW2 sixteen-year-old Ava clings to the remnants of a childhood that is fast slipping away.

Raised in a quiet village on the outskirts of Leeds, Ava’s days were once filled with painting, gardening and the comfort of her close-knit family and Bill- her love.

But when the war breaks out this world shatters, Ava is forced to grow up far too soon.

She endures both love and heartbreak and tries her utmost to keep going during a very trying time.

Keeping a diary keeps her sane and helps her express her feelings, but will the contents of this eventually lead to sorrow?

Through every heartache and every goodbye Ava discovers the quiet strength that comes from holding on to memories, even when the people around her insist on forgetting.

A heartwarming story of courage, family ties, heartbreak and the ultimate love between two people.

Mary Hindle is a compelling historical novel telling the story of a young woman who finds herself caught up in the East Lancashire Weavers Uprising of 1826.