Historical Romance and Family Sagas

GWEN MADOC novels of love, life and relationships

Gwen Madoc's novels depict the lives of feisty young women struggling in a man's world to find a decent life and true love in the face of poverty and deprevation.

The eras of Gwen's books are late 19th century to early 20th century. Woman's lives ere changing in the years between the two great world wars. It was difficult for any young woman to keep herself respectable and earn a decent living. Gwen's stories are of these courageous young women who strive against obstacles such as poverty, exploitation and prejudice, and who triumph in the end, often finding love in the process.

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The Top Five Reasons Historical Romance And Family Sagas is the Best Of-GWEN-MADOC

Good books: There is no pleasure like that of settling down with a good book to lose oneself in stories of love and adventure.
Historical Romance: These books can transport the reader back to romantic times past when anything could happen and usually did. Heroines of all classes fight their way through to find love and lasting happiness.
Family Sagas: These stories are of love, life and relationships, with gutsy heroines who have steel in their backbones who will battle their way through any obstacle to find happiness in the arms of a true love.
Novels: Novels reflect life and times, the human condition and human nature in all its forms. People read novels for entertainment but also to experience vicariously the traumas and dramas of life. Very often people find solutions to their own problems when reading novels.
Good Reads. There is nothing like a good book.

HER MOTHER'S SINS

Edwardian Historical Romance

Swansea, 1910.
Lynnys and Evie are young innocent girls whose mothers lead disreputable lives.
Evie's mother is a fraudulent medium. Vain and self-centred, her head is too easily turned by any smooth-talking man, often putting young Evie in moral danger.

Worse still, unbeknown to Lynnys her mother is the madame of the town's most successful brothel.

When both girls are menaced by an evil man the chances are neither girl will escape the consequences of her mother's sins.

The Stolen Baby

Historical Romance

Swansea 1853
Bronwen thinks only of saving her father from serious injury or even death in an illegal bare-fist boxing match.
But Bronwen is in even greater danger herself, for if the unscrupulous pair promoting the match find out who she really is they will not hesitate to kill her too.

By Lies Betrayed

Family Saga

When Stella and her young son are abandoned by her husband she is at the mercy of an unscrupulous neighbour who lusts after her.
She thinks she is saved when her husband returns. But before he disappears once more he leaves behind a secret and an added burden for Stella.

No Child of Mine

Family Saga

Beth discovers she is illegitimate and that the man she thought of as her uncle is her real father. Left penniless she turns to him for help but he casts her off and cruelly denies her as his daughter.

Daughter of Shame

Family Saga

Jenni must escape her dreadful past but when she thinks she had finally found happiness the man she loves betrays her and the shame of her past catches up with her.

Bad To The Bone

Historical Romance

Swansea 1899
At eighteen, Kate Vaughan has it all -
she is beautiful, rich and in love
with the eligible Mansel Jenkins.
But her tyrannical stepfather
Luther Templar is about to
change her life forever.
Luther poisons Mansel's mind
against Kate with a terrible
lie and he breaks their engagement
leaving her devastated.
To further his schemes to steal
her fortune Luther forces Kate
into marriage to his nephew Simon.
Trapped with a husband she does
not love and menaced by Luther,
Kate is desperate to regain the
lost love of her adored Mansel.
But Mansel, in despair, has gone
off to fight the Boers and may
lose his life on the field of
battle.