The East End Girls: Book 3
Publication Date: May 29, 2026
East London, 1943: As air raid sirens wail, can the East End Girls join forces to protect their city and the people they love?
Nell Reilly’s blonde curls and piercing blue eyes might look angelic, but she is ready to fight with everything she has for a better future. Brought up in London’s tough East End, she is fiercely determined to keep the promise she made to her little sister Jo to build a new life for them one day. Until a chance meeting changes everything…
Absorbed in her work with the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, the last thing Nell is looking for is love, but tall, broad-shouldered Tom Hunter stops her in her tracks. Tom is her wayward brother Frank’s new right-hand man in his black-market operations, and Nell knows from bitter experience the risks of falling for a man like that. But when she witnesses his unexpected kindness and sees how he cares for Jo, she realises that Tom has made an impression she can’t forget, no matter how hard she tries…
But Tom has a secret, one he’s finding harder and harder to keep. And when Nell finally discovers that he is an undercover police officer, she also learns something that makes her heart stop: his cover is blown and he’s in terrible danger.
As London prepares for another night of air raids, Nell races through the blackout to find Tom and warn him. Can she reach him in time to save his life? And as bombs crash down over the East End, will their love survive to fight another day?
Fans of Katie Flynn, Rosie Goodwin and Lizzie Lane will adore this page-turning, heart-warming and emotional World War Two saga about love, friendship and finding hope in the darkest of places.
Like others throughout England, Nell Reilly signs up to help with the war effort. She’s also fighting for a better future for herself and her younger sister.
Author Jean Fullerton continues The East End Girls series with A Wartime Promise for the East End Girls, marking the third installment.
At the center of the story is the Reilly family’s involvement with the black market. When Nell meets her brother’s new helper, Tom, she has no idea he is hiding a powerful secret. As it unravels, she must make a difficult choice.
The author provides interesting historical details about the role of the Barrage Balloon girls, along with the dangers tied to the black market during World War II.
Although the story is part of a series, it can easily be read as a standalone. Fans of the series will note recurring characters.
A Wartime Promise for the East End Girls features a young woman from a rough neighborhood who is willing to fight for a better future.
Born and bred in East London, Jean was a District Nurse by trade working throughout East London. She has published twenty-three sagas, including the popular World War Two Ration Book series, which, like all her books, is set in East London. Jean has also written her autobiography A Child of the East End, about growing up in post-war Stepney and Wapping. She is currently working on first book of her new four book WW2 series.
