Ragged Rose

Ragged Rose
Dilly Court

The heartwarming new novel from Dilly Court, the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid.With the fate of her family in her hands, Rose has to make a terrible choice. Be thrown onto the streets without a penny to her name, or watch her loved ones fall into ruin . . .Rose is keeping a dreadful secret, and too scared to ask her strict father for help, it’s down to her to keep her brother from the hangman’s noose – whatever it takes. Her innocent sister Cora is on a different road to ruin, bewitched by a handsome cad whose intentions are anything but gallant.When Rose’s father discovers that his children have disgraced his name he turns them onto the street. Penniless, homeless and with the noose tightening, Rose must rescue her brother and keep her sister from the streets, even if it means putting herself in the most terrible danger . . .

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Source ISBN: 9780008137359

Ebook Edition © February 2016 ISBN: 9780008137366

Version: 2017-05-09

Dedication (#u01cc978d-8111-5418-9d9b-3d6731c642a8)

For my great-niece, Evie Marian Jane Atchison.

Table of Contents

Cover (#u37e3f6a6-55a6-54e8-95a1-cd1bf0ced7d3)

Title Page (#u2ef8b958-a0ed-5dc4-bb7f-38b00411121b)

Copyright (#ue70a3f4e-51e9-5c79-989e-f9af5a9d8a74)

Dedication (#u17b7605e-b4dd-5449-b65c-e57f4776229c)

Chapter One (#u3a8bcd38-984f-5f82-9587-d96b466f1b10)

Chapter Two (#uf39aff0b-061c-55b1-84e8-1c2bba22e414)

Chapter Three (#uaaeb50e0-0ec3-5cdb-aecb-a3d768c92dac)

Chapter Four (#u3f8bf09a-b6d8-5b68-b891-aa17eff4f6fd)

Chapter Five (#u64c249ee-95b1-54d2-a620-ea7a044b5a10)

Chapter Six (#u178ec941-c9e6-5896-8a44-8c4f8ea34fda)

Chapter Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)

A Letter from Dilly (#litres_trial_promo)