Red Sky in the Morning AND Without Sin (Omnibus)

RED SKY IN THE MORNING
A young girl stands alone in the cobbled marketplace of a small Lincolnshire town, bedraggled, soaked through and very afraid. No one knows or cares who she is or where she has come from. Only kindly farmer Eddie Appleyard recognizes something in the girl that touches his heart.

In a drunken haze Eddie takes her home. His wife Bertha accuses him of infidelity and turns Anna out into the cold, wet night. Eddie hides the girl in a tumbledown shepherd's cottage that becomes her new hone

WITHOUT SIN
Meg Kirkland fears her impudent tongue has caused her father's dismissal from his job and forced her whole family from their home c Middleditch Farm. Worse still, her father abandons them outside the workhouse, leaving Meg to care for her devastated mother Sarah and het Little brother as tragedy continues to haunt the family. Isaac Pendleton, master of the workhouse, rules the lives of all those within its walls, but when Sarah becomes his latest mistress, her daughter is disgusted.

Meg's Loyal friend Jake, born and bred in the workhouse, has a maturity and understanding beyond his years. Yet it is Meg's fiery independence that encourages Jake to leave the workhouse and seek employment on Middleditch Farm. His future is assured, but who will take care of Meg?

The pretty, vivacious girl, once so innocent, becomes a calculating and manipulative young woman who will stop at nothing to get her own way, even if it means betraying those she has loved.