Tizzie

It was her letter. Dear Tizzie, it read so why had it been thrown away before she'd seen it? Her family wouldn't do that to her, hide things from her? Families supported and aided each other didn't they? Especially on a Yorkshire Dale farm, in 1887 where life was tough enough without a falling out in the family. But niece Agnes knew something for she'd found the letter. Perhaps it was time for Tizzie to understand what her brother, Jack, his wife, Maggie, and their children had been up to. 'It's nowt good that's for sure.' Here she had been working herself down to skin and bones as a dairymaid for them, but what had they really done to her? She dreaded finding out but she must, or Agnes will suffer the same spinster fate. Sharp young Agnes longed to be a school teacher, showed Tizzie things weren't what she'd thought. Together they uncovered Jack and Maggie's treachery and Tizzie, shocked, robbed of all she wanted in life, determined to set Agnes free. "In the British army of 1872, corrupt young officers play games of a different kind. Their favourite is to rape young society women in their homes. The rogues make a competition out of it. The more girls the regiment savages, the more different ways they do it, the greater their merriment and cheers for the winning regiment. But the victims go through hell. They can't tell anyone, not even their mothers and suffer the shame. Their families suffer too. Banker Bryce Ackerman loses the love of his life to the scoundrels, but he won't leave it alone. Bryce follows the thugs to India, where two of the marauding regiments are posted. Trying to run the rapists to ground, he learns their treachery is deadly and their evil courage more monstrous than he expected. Along the way, he must confront his own sexuality. Is he a gentleman always, or is he too a predator? Life in the British Raj in Colonial India heightens all his senses, good and bad, as he chases down the brutal and dark side of manhood, as he tries to bring Justice to places where Justice had been absent."--Blurb Bryce Ackerman returns home from a business trip to Vienna expecting to marry his beloved Aimée in June. But scandal, she is pregnant. This is 1872 and Bryce is a Victorian gentleman who doesn't believe in sex before marriage. Aimée, distraught and disgraced, tells him of the officers from two Indian regiments, who were certainly not officers and gentlemen when they visited her family home. Outraged and furious Bryce hunts the soldiers back to India. He will have his revenge for Aimée, and justice for all the other young women victims. It is no easy task. The officers will do anything to escape retribution and Bryce has to learn to put personal vengeance on one side to secure justice for all.