Esther Whitaker is a domestic servant with a missing reference, a silent mouth, and eleven months she cannot attach her name to.
She was dismissed from her last position for defending a scullery maid against the son of the house. She spent the year that followed in the Halifax Union workhouse. She has since rebuilt her life one clean kitchen at a time, kept the gap sealed, and told herself this is not hiding. This is managing.
Daniel Eastwood is the finest journeyman at Eastwood's Iron Foundry and a man who has spent three months learning that Esther Whitaker is the kind of person worth being honest for. He does not know everything about her history. He knows enough to walk to Marsden's foundry two miles further uphill every morning rather than let a foundry master decide who he is allowed to love.
When the truth breaks across Crown Street, both of them face the same question: what is the cost of standing up, and who are you on the other side of it?
Rich, authentic, and unsparing, The Foundry Gate is a love story built from clean iron and hard-earned truth. For readers of the great Victorian working-class sagas.
Genre: Historical Romance
She was dismissed from her last position for defending a scullery maid against the son of the house. She spent the year that followed in the Halifax Union workhouse. She has since rebuilt her life one clean kitchen at a time, kept the gap sealed, and told herself this is not hiding. This is managing.
Daniel Eastwood is the finest journeyman at Eastwood's Iron Foundry and a man who has spent three months learning that Esther Whitaker is the kind of person worth being honest for. He does not know everything about her history. He knows enough to walk to Marsden's foundry two miles further uphill every morning rather than let a foundry master decide who he is allowed to love.
When the truth breaks across Crown Street, both of them face the same question: what is the cost of standing up, and who are you on the other side of it?
Rich, authentic, and unsparing, The Foundry Gate is a love story built from clean iron and hard-earned truth. For readers of the great Victorian working-class sagas.
Genre: Historical Romance
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