A True Regency Story of a Young Woman's Sacrifices for the Man she Loves.
Grace Roscoe was a young, naive girl when she was made an heiress to the vast fortune of her unscrupulous uncles John and James Hardman owners of Allerton Hall in Liverpool. With the fortune came the condition that Grace should marry well and enable her family to enter the society they craved but were denied. The Hardman brothers were racketeers and slave traders and not welcome in polite society. They had the mansion, the money but not the class, but all this would change, the brothers thought if they could marry Grace off to a suitable well-connected gentleman.
Grace, born in 1715 was the victim of her own mother, Margaret Roscoe's greed, who had all but sold her daughter to the brothers for a high price, but they hadn't reckoned on Grace finding love elsewhere. Grace had grown into a passionate and feisty young woman when John Hazlehurst the estate handsome groom stole her heart. Grace's passion and love for John knew made her deliriously happy until the day she was summoned to a family meeting.
A marriage to an older man she hardly knew had been arranged for her. Distraught and heartbroken Grace was determined she would never marry somebody she didn't love, so planned her elopement with John. They were aware the scandal would cause her social downfall and the terrible consequences of being disinherited. Grace didn't care, all she wanted was the man she loved, whatever sacrifice's she had to make.
There was no going back once their dangerous journey began across the wide treacherous River Mersey. When a squall blows-up, the lovers face certain death as their small flat river boat is tossed and battered against the gigantic waves. Can they survive and live happy ever after? Or does fate intervene and separate the lovers for ever?
The main characters in this true historical romance.
Grace Roscoe
Was born in Bolton-le-Moors to John (Jack) Roscoe and Margaret Hardman in 1715.
John Hardman became Lord Mayor of Liverpool shortly before his death in 1854.
John Hazlehurst
Was born in Frodsham, Cheshire to Samuel Hazlehurst and Mable Warburton in 1714.
He was the Coachman at Allerton Hall. Liverpool. (Allerton Hall is now a pub restaurant affectionately call by the locals 'the Pub in the park'
