Tamar by Deborah Challinor

When Tamar Deane is orphaned at seventeen in a small Cornish Village, she seizes the chance for a new life and emigrates to New Zealand.

A Most Determined Woman by Emma Blair

For Sarah Hawke, daughter of an impoverished miner, life offered little beyond the grime of Glasgow in the 1890s and the eternal drudgery of back-breaking work. Until a mysterious stranger entered her life. A stranger who turned out to be her real father – and the owner of a vast and prosperous shipping empire… Catapulted into a world of luxury, of servants and stately homes, Sarah begins a new and glittering life. As sole heiress to a fortune, she has much to gain – and everything to lose. For she takes over the business, and with it the risk and rivalry, deceit and intrigue – and the prospect of undying love…