Coaldust and Candlelight (The Children of Black Water Valley Book 1)

COALDUST AND CANDLELIGHTWales. 1878.A valley carved by coal, a village held together by chapel hymns and the stubborn refusal to surrender.Nine children are growing up in the shadow of the pit. Some will fight to escape it. Some will be broken by it. And some will find, in the darkest of places, a strength they never knew they possessed.These are the boys who dream of worlds beyond the coalface, and girls with a quiet hunger in their eyes, carrying burdens no child should bear alone.In the terraced rows where every family knows the next, where the winding wheel never stops and the mountain takes as much as it gives, the community is about to be tested. And the children of the valley will learn what it costs to grow up in a world that was never built for them.Coaldust and Candlelight is the first book in the Children of Black Water Valley trilogy. A sweeping story of resilience, hardship, and the fierce bonds that hold ordinary people together when everything else is pulling them apart. Read more