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The Windrush Affair
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writerelsajoseph
Ongoing, First published Jan 25, 2020
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Beautiful stowaway Alyssa sneakily boards HMT Empire Windrush carrying hundreds of post war immigrants  from the Carribbean hoping for a new life in Britain. When the ship docks at Tilbury on the 21st June 1948, she immediately finds work as a servant for a wealthy aristocrat married couple. But things take a turn for the worse when Alyssa finds herself falling in love with her master's husband!
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A Simple Deception

42 parts Complete

At three and twenty, Lady Susanna Beresford is at dire risk of being considered an old maid, though she is determined that nothing but the deepest love will incline her to marry, a fact that deeply vexes her mother. As the season closes in 1810 and Susanna prepares to return home to Hertfordshire unattached, she meets the very man who will indeed change her life forever. A man whom high society would deem inappropriate and forbidden based on the very colour of his skin. But there is more to this man than meets the eye, and their meeting sets in motion a series of events that will undoubtably change society as they know it forever.

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