Miss Winters' Rapscallions
(2026)(The second book in the British Home Children series)
A novel by Naomi Finley
Canada, 1938. Hazel Winters is no longer the wild-hearted girl she once was. Grieving the loss of Frederick Taylor, the man who became a father in all but name, she leans on the family she found in his widow Charlotte and Charlotte’s spirited sister, Ellie. When Frederick leaves her an abandoned estate in Liverpool and asks that she return to restore it, the three women set out together to rebuild not only the crumbling manor, but something of themselves. Yet across the ocean, whispers of war grow louder, casting long shadows over the future they are fighting to claim.
In Nova Scotia, Hazel’s younger brother William clings to the fragments of memory she made him promise never to forget. Torn from her side as British Home Children, those fragments, offered in hope, are the only clues in his long quest to find her.
And in Liverpool, Brock remembers the fierce girl who defied him at every turn. Hazel had always seen him as a rival, but he loved her, even then—though she never knew it. Years later, she has never left his thoughts, and he wonders what became of the girl who refused to bend.
Across continents and decades, as the world edges toward war, the bonds of blood, memory, and love pull their lives toward one another. But will they find each other before fate divides them once more?
Genre: Historical
In Nova Scotia, Hazel’s younger brother William clings to the fragments of memory she made him promise never to forget. Torn from her side as British Home Children, those fragments, offered in hope, are the only clues in his long quest to find her.
And in Liverpool, Brock remembers the fierce girl who defied him at every turn. Hazel had always seen him as a rival, but he loved her, even then—though she never knew it. Years later, she has never left his thoughts, and he wonders what became of the girl who refused to bend.
Across continents and decades, as the world edges toward war, the bonds of blood, memory, and love pull their lives toward one another. But will they find each other before fate divides them once more?
Genre: Historical