title: Marrying Miss Martha
author: Jacobs, Ann
description: A new historical romance from a bestselling author
  When Captain Merrivale dies, his daughters Martha and Penelope are left almost penniless. They find employment as schoolteachers in the Lancashire mill-town of Tapton. On arrival they find more than they had bargained for. Penelope is caught up in a riot, which brings her into contact with a disgruntled worker, Clem Porter. Meanwhile Martha finds herself drawn to Ben Seaton, the father of one of her charges.