Faith and Fearlessness

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What if a man loses all… then finds a love that cannot be? • • • Faith and Fearlessness sweeps the reader back to the Victorian era where Manchester mill master John Thornton is left a broken man after the death of his wife Margaret. Faced with the threat of a violent strike which will throw him into bankruptcy, he reluctantly agrees to a marriage of convenience to safeguard the future of his mills. Only when he meets the radiant Helen Grant and her excitingly unorthodox worldviews, Thornton’s crushed heart slowly starts to mend. Desperate to hold on to this forbidden love, he chooses to hide his engagement from Helen. G. Thomas is the long-awaited, stand-alone sequel to Elizabeth Gaskell’s masterpiece North and South. Set against a background of ruthless corruption, foul injustice and the unforgiving prejudices of Victorian society, Faith and Fearlessness is a pulsating story which will leave lovers of historical fiction yearning for more of Thomas’ fast-paced and captivating writing style.