Beyond Maggie's Roots

"I couldn't put it down! I eventually had to force myself to stop reading because I needed to get some sleep!"
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London, 1961.

Nineteen-year-old Maggie Turner arrives with nothing but determination and a quiet vow never to belong to anyone again. Back in Yorkshire, she was little more than a servant in her own home. In London, she plans to build a life of her own, no matter how humble.

But the city is not as free as it seems.

Through her friend Laura, Maggie steps into a world where appearances are carefully maintained, and dangerous truths are hidden in plain sight. In a time when homosexuality is still a crime, discretion is survival.
Then Maggie meets Alfred Ashford - respectable, yet untouchable.

Beneath his careful composure, she glimpses something no one else is meant to see. What begins as quiet understanding, soon deepens into something neither of them can deny - and neither can risk.

Because Alfred already belongs to a life he cannot escape, and Maggie is the one person who could destroy it.

When her future shifts in ways she never expected, Maggie is forced to face the truth: loving him could cost her everything she has fought to build, but walking away might cost her even more.

Beyond Maggie's Roots is a story of:

• Forbidden workplace affair
• Class difference
• Secret second family
• Village girl moves to the city
• Historical romance
• Found family
• Women supporting women