London, 1926. Life has not turned out as Deborah had expected. But while occasionally haunted by how the Great War snatched away the love of her life, she quietly and determinedly works away at the staff agency she set up as Miss Deborah Claremont, leaving her alter ego of Lady Deborah at the door. Amid an undercurrent of social unrest and with the General Strike looming ahead, Deborah meets two very different men: Theodore Field MP and Evan Morgan, a Union speaker. What lies ahead for her and how much will the past she has carefully put aside direct her path forward?

Author Biography

Born and educated in Stoke-on-Trent, Margaret Kaine now lives in Eastbourne. The Black Silk Purse is her second romantic historical novel set in the Edwardian era, following publication of Dangerous Decisions. Her debut novel, Ring of Clay, won the RNA New Writer's Award and the Society of Authors' Sagittarius Prize and was followed by a further six best-selling sagas set in the Potteries.