The Christmas Orphan

After her father’s sudden death little Jane Walker had been forced to sell flowers on the London streets to the wealthy in order to make ends meet. At the end of each day she would return to the terrible streets of Whitechapel where her heavily pregnant mother awaited her return.

When they were forced out of their tenement and into the workhouse, tragedy soon came calling and Christmas Day would never be the same again.

Driven to despair by the hurtful older girls in the workhouse, Jane ran away and sought out a friendly face she remembered from the past. Here, her friendship with the young heir and son of her master, Daniel Weir blossomed and grew over the years. But theirs was never a relationship that could be acceptable. When at last he married as was expected of his position Jane had to accept her place was only ever going to be as servant to his new wife. But the new mistress of the house took an instant dislike to Jane and was determined to see her cast out into the streets away from the longing gaze of her husband.

Then fate played its cunning hand once more.

Would the Christmas orphan achieve happiness? Or would she, like countless others, have to endure a continual life of misery and lost opportunity?