Cornish Sagas Series by Rosemary Aitken

When Katie Waren's mother dies in childbirth Katie is forced to abandon her dreams of working as a pupil-teacher.Instead,she goes into service at the big house with her sister,Fanny.Soon,and against her will,she finds herself growing fond of the shy but kind son of the house,George Trevarnon... moreWhen Katie Waren's mother dies in childbirth Katie is forced to abandon her dreams of working as a pupil-teacher.Instead,she goes into service at the big house with her sister,Fanny.Soon,and against her will,she finds herself growing fond of the shy but kind son of the house,George Trevarnon.But the intervention of George's unscrupulous brother leads to the sisters' dismissal,and Katie and George are seperated-Katie to struggle for a living in the alien city of Truro,George, to bury his emotions in the dangers and devastations of the Boer War. When the two meet again,each is married to another,but fate contrives to bring them together again-in the deceptive peace of an Edwardian summer... less

Carrie Trimble has to leave the familiar Terrace and go into service in Penzance. But her connections with a Newlyn artist prove hard to forget. Even when she meets Ernie, and has to adapt to the life of a clayer's wife over at St Austell, Carrie always keeps Penvarris in her heart - and the Frenchman she used to meet on the cliff-path there.

The new romance from this popular author - Autumn 1909: Edith Trewin, the general maid in the Killivert household, and Miss Alicia, the young lady of the house, are social worlds apart, though they share a streak of independence and intelligence. The two young women become unlikely allies after a kitchen maid inexplicably disappears shortly after her arrival at the house. The two unite in the search for her as they experience love and loss as the Great War overtakes the world.