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Kay Seeley

Hopes are high at the Fitzroy Hotel on Edward VII's Coronation Day. London is full of people celebrating and the Fitzroy family hope to prosper after hard times. When tragedy strikes lives are thrown into turmoil. Clara Fitzroy refuses to conform to convention. Her reckless behaviour has devastating consequences and an ill-judged liaison threatens to destroy everything she's hoped for. Clara has to make a decision that will change her life. Will she make the right one? She asks Daisy Carter, the hotel housekeeper, for help, but Daisy has problems of her own. A family relationship brings grief and heartache and a well meaning action ends in disaster. A life-changing moment, a heartbreaking choice. Can Clara find the courage to follow her heart and find the happiness she craves? Can Daisy keep her family together when fate is pulling them apart?

Annie Aldington

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Fitzroy Hotel

One Beat of a Heart

Verity Templeton, 18 and fiercely independent, travels to London with her aunt for the season. During a weekend with her friend Charlotte Huntington-Smythe an encounter with Charlotte's brother shows her another side of the family. Then she meets Brandon Summerville, the handsome, arrogant, wealthy man about town Charlotte is in love with. Will she be able to resist his obvious charm? When a secret from the past turns her life upside down she doubts everything she's believed in. Her fight to find the truth brings more heartache. Can she forgive or will it destroy her hopes for future happiness? Meanwhile, Lawrence Fitzroy contemplates his own future and things get worse for Daisy Carter, the hotel housekeeper, when a new Under Manager is appointed. Can Daisy keep control of her staff, or will an errant maid's wilfulness be her undoing?

A Troubled Heart