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The Pit Girl's Courage
In the dust of the coal mines, Cassie never imagined her heart could lead her to the brink of ruin.
Cassie’s days are spent in the perilous Northumberland coal mines toiling alongside her family. Each day is a struggle against the suffocating dust and despair and toxic gas, yet amidst the bleakness, a tender friendship grows between Cassie and Oliver, the overseer’s son, but as their clandestine love blossoms, their world around them soon crumbles.
When mother flees the family home Cassie’s her life is upturned once and Cassie and brother Junior are left to deal with their selfish and violent father who in a drunken stupor causes a deadly explosion in the mine.
Now outcast from their friends and neighbours and turned out from their cottage Cassie and Junior seek refuge with their mother only to discover that she has taken up with ‘Frank’ and Junior is unwelcome.
Turning to Oliver for support she is devastated when he is sent away to make a new life. Promising to write, Cassie holds on to hope, but when she is warned to stay away from Oliver on threat of death, Cassie’s hope is lost.
Now years later in the depths of Newcastle with Oliver lost to her, and Junior at sea, Cassie must face a
new life alone. By day she sells molluscs to the passing crowd; by night, she serves drinks in an unsavoury tavern.
But when an unwelcome suitor threatens her life an unexpected ally appears, hinting at a past long believed lost. Can this ghost from her old life be the key to Cassie’s new beginning, or is it just another shadow in the darkness? Find out in this wonderful Historical Victorian Romance from Nell Harte.
Cassie’s days are spent in the perilous Northumberland coal mines toiling alongside her family. Each day is a struggle against the suffocating dust and despair and toxic gas, yet amidst the bleakness, a tender friendship grows between Cassie and Oliver, the overseer’s son, but as their clandestine love blossoms, their world around them soon crumbles.
When mother flees the family home Cassie’s her life is upturned once and Cassie and brother Junior are left to deal with their selfish and violent father who in a drunken stupor causes a deadly explosion in the mine.
Now outcast from their friends and neighbours and turned out from their cottage Cassie and Junior seek refuge with their mother only to discover that she has taken up with ‘Frank’ and Junior is unwelcome.
Turning to Oliver for support she is devastated when he is sent away to make a new life. Promising to write, Cassie holds on to hope, but when she is warned to stay away from Oliver on threat of death, Cassie’s hope is lost.
Now years later in the depths of Newcastle with Oliver lost to her, and Junior at sea, Cassie must face a
new life alone. By day she sells molluscs to the passing crowd; by night, she serves drinks in an unsavoury tavern.
But when an unwelcome suitor threatens her life an unexpected ally appears, hinting at a past long believed lost. Can this ghost from her old life be the key to Cassie’s new beginning, or is it just another shadow in the darkness? Find out in this wonderful Historical Victorian Romance from Nell Harte.
314 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 15, 2024
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Nell Harte
36 books14 followersHello, I'm Nell Harte. I write Victorian Saga Romance where you can’t keep a good woman down. I tell the stories of the working class poor, the street people, the paupers who survived in the harsh conditions of Victorian England. I love to show the human spirit prevailing over hardship and tragedy. My heroines always triumph, and sometimes, their enemies get their just deserts.
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May 30, 2024
This is the first book I've read from this young lady, but I've enjoyed reading it. What's made it give it 5⭐ I come from a mining town in West Yorkshire, the same area where Kellingley Colliery once was, the last deep mine colliery to shut in Britain. Though I don't live in the area myself but we had a colliery in my area anyway, plus my own father being an ex-miner, there was trouble back in the late 1800s when the men walked out due to pay & conditions so I can relate to parts of the story of conditions in a mine. Would very much recommend anyone having a read of it
May 1, 2024
A fantastic read, from the pits, hunger and cruelty!
Cassie was an amazing young girl, she worked hard to keep her home and family fed, but she lost her cruel father, and she had to put up with what her father did!
She found a new life and she was able to make a living selling oysters, people where friendly, and she found her lost love!
A must read, I loved it
Cassie was an amazing young girl, she worked hard to keep her home and family fed, but she lost her cruel father, and she had to put up with what her father did!
She found a new life and she was able to make a living selling oysters, people where friendly, and she found her lost love!
A must read, I loved it
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April 20, 2024
Brilliant
As usual I was lost in this book ,but I always do in Bell Hartes books they are always draw you in to them. Hope you enjoy this book as much as I did xxx
As usual I was lost in this book ,but I always do in Bell Hartes books they are always draw you in to them. Hope you enjoy this book as much as I did xxx
April 20, 2024
Loved this story of Cassie and Oliver and no forgetting Junior, very well written made me cry at the end.
July 8, 2024
Believable
I liked the main character and felt you could get to know her through out the book. Ireally enjoyed this book
I liked the main character and felt you could get to know her through out the book. Ireally enjoyed this book
July 22, 2024
Tatabrain
An enjoyable read, would have liked a little more depth, nonetheless a good story I would recommend as light reading.
An enjoyable read, would have liked a little more depth, nonetheless a good story I would recommend as light reading.
August 14, 2025
good read
I enjoyed this book the story keeps you engrossed, it has you just where the author wants you to be you feel your actually there. I wish I could binge read my books
I enjoyed this book the story keeps you engrossed, it has you just where the author wants you to be you feel your actually there. I wish I could binge read my books
September 6, 2024
inspiring
Good story line good about what it takes to achieve dreams and succeed during the hardest of times. Keeps your attention and easy reading. Thank you
Good story line good about what it takes to achieve dreams and succeed during the hardest of times. Keeps your attention and easy reading. Thank you
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