The Moral Compass (Shaking the Tree, Book 1) by K.A. Servian
Publication Date: October 17, 2017
Sweetpea Publishing
Paperback & eBook; 285 Pages
Genre: Fiction/Historical/Romance/Victorian
Florence lives like a Princess attending dinner parties and balls away from the gritty reality, filth and poverty of Victorian London.
However, her world comes crashing around her when her father suffers a spectacular fall from grace. She must abandon her life of luxury, leave behind the man she loves and sail to the far side of the world where compromise and suffering beyond anything she can imagine await her.
When she is offered the opportunity to regain some of what she has lost, she takes it, but soon discovers that not everything is as it seems. The choice she has made has a high price attached and she must live with the heart-breaking consequences of her decision.
This novel is part one in the 'Shaking the Tree' series.
About the Author

As a life-long creative, Kathy gained qualifications in fashion design, applied design to fabric and jewellery making and enjoyed a twenty-year-plus career in the fashion and applied arts industries as a pattern maker, designer and owner of her own clothing and jewellery labels.
She then discovered a love of teaching and began passing on the skills accumulated over the years—design, pattern-making, sewing, Art Clay Silver, screen-printing and machine embroidery to name a few.
Creative writing started as a self-dare to see if she had the chops to write a manuscript. Writing quickly became an obsession and Kathy’s first novel, Peak Hill, which was developed from the original manuscript, was a finalist in the Romance Writers of New Zealand Pacific Hearts Full Manuscript contest in 2016.
Kathy now squeezes full-time study for an advanced diploma in creative writing in around working on her novels, knocking out the occasional short story, teaching part-time and being a wife and mother.
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Broken Teepee
Giveaway
During the Blog Tour we will be giving away an eBook of Throwing Light by K.A. Servian! To enter, please enter via the Gleam form below.
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My Review
The Moral Compass is the first installment from the Shaking the Tree series. I have to admit, I was not sure where the story was going to go at the beginning. It was a little slow the first 50 pages. Then suddenly, I did not want to put it down and I finished it in just a few hours. I can not believe how it ended and I eagerly wait for book two from the series to see what happens next.
I give The Moral Compass 4 1/2 stars.
I received this book from the author. This review is 100% my own honest opinion.
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