Debra lape spent 40 years researching the story of her great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth Rogers. Lizzy was the owner-operator of the White Pidgeon, a brothel located in Ohio.

With a hit show on the Disney Channel and a movie that topped the box office charts, Lizzie McGuire is the girl adored by millions across the country. She's full of personality, she's got fabulous style, and she somehow manages to survive every embarrassing situation that a girl in junior high could possibly face. Read what others have to say about Lizzie and how they really feel about the crazy world of friends, parents, popularity contests, and crushes that comes along with junior high. Inside you'll also find fashion, hair, and make-up tips, a biography of Hilary Duff, and advice on everything from knowing who your true friends are to putting up with the fam!

Raped and reduced to working in a brothel to keep her baby, unwed, teenage mother, Lizzie, forges a new life for herself and her child in the Kimberley region of Australia. But can she evade her persecutors and ultimately bring to them to justice? This is a story of a girl from inner Sydney. Her family is poor, her father dies when she is nine, life is hard. But her courage rises above adversity. It is story of her struggle to survive and make a life of her own, first as a prostitute, then with her child in a remote outback town. This is the second book in the series, "Old Balmain House" and begins in the same house as the first book and continues part of the story of Sophie, the girl who vanished half a century ago. Lizzie, aged eight, meets Sophie, the girl who lived in the same bedroom as a child. Sophie becomes her friend. When Lizzie turns fifteen Sophie tries to warn her not to go in a car with three older boys. Lizzie ignores her warning and is brutally raped by these three men. Lizzie becomes pregnant and is determined to keep her child. She leaves Sydney and goes to Melbourne, to have and keep her baby. Here, penniless and desperate, she become a prostitute the only way she can support herself. She is discovered and the authorities try to take her child. She flees to Broome, a small town in the furthest corner of of Australia. Here she assumes the role of widow with a small child and settles into this friendly town. Her life is good until a man from her former life finds her and threatens to expose her or harm her child. She runs again. On a remote desert road her car breaks down. Without water, with her six year old daughter beside her, they face death from thirst. Help comes in an unexpected way. She takes refuge in a local aboriginal community. Her school friend from Balmain, now a journalist, seeks retribution from the the men who raped Lizzie many years ago and have continued their ways with others. Now, as successful business men, they seek to use the law to deny justice.

The Wedding Party Anything can happen at a Bellamy Wedding Can a fake fiancé become a real husband? Bridesmaid Lizzie Muldoon had resolved to go stag to the weekend-long Bellamy society wedding. Except her "well-meaning" friends, poor planning, and a big secret had Lizzie hooked up with a fake fiancé! But groomsman Joe Bellamy stood head and shoulders above other men, a real man amid a sea of imposters, and he had Lizzie wishing he was the real thing. He believed in truth, honesty, simple virtues. So why was this stand-up guy "pretending" to be Lizzie's lover as if he meant business? Is he...the one?

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LIZZIE'S SECRET and LIZZIE'S WAR. LONDON 1958. Lizzie Larch battles to keep her daughters safe and out of harm's reach. Perfect for the fans of Nadine Dorries and Lyn Andrews. Lizzie adores her beautiful and clever daughters and will do anything for them. Both possess a wonderful creative flair, but have fiercely different characters. Betty, the eldest, is head strong like Lizzie's first husband whilst Francie is talented and easily influenced. When Betty runs away after an argument with Sebastian, heartbreak and worry descend on the family. At great risk to her health, Lizzie finds herself pregnant but is determined to give Sebastian the son they craved. Sebastian meanwhile is plunged into a dangerous overseas mission using his old contacts to track Betty to Paris and to the lair of the rogue that seduced her. Consumed with guilt, can Sebastian right the wrongs of the past and finally unite his family and friends?

What would happen if Jane Austen's PRIDE AND PREJUDICE was set in the twenty-first century? When Mrs Bennet inherits enough money to move into the kind of village she has always dreamed of, her daughters find themselves swept up in a glamorous life of partying and country pursuits. But Lizzie and her sisters soon discover that beneath the very smart surface lurks a web of intrigue and rivalries . . .

They say you only regret the things you don't do . . . Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit; ever since her father's death she has had to be a survivor. Home life is harsh, though, and desperate to escape it, she makes an ill-advised marriage. But she discovers all-too-quickly that she's married a selfish and violent man. His beatings never seem to stop and she soon comes to a decision: she must run far, far away. With the help of some suffragettes she escapes to Manchester, where she finds work in a munitions factory - she is finally the independent woman she has always longed to be. But her husband, whose cruelty knows no bounds, tracks her down and drag her back home to more beatings than ever. But when his violence causes her to lose the one thing she's always wanted, Lizzie knows she must find the strength to make the changes in her life that are so sorely needed. ******************* What readers are saying about OUR LIZZIE 'I'd recommend this book to all saga lovers' - 5 stars 'Another fantastic read . . . It made me laugh and it made me cry . . . Another page turner' - 5 stars 'Brilliant series of books. Lovely stories. Lovely characters' - 5 stars