Winthrop Hatcher and Mercita Mederios were once young and in love. But, family obligations, duty and prejudice ripped them apart. After 35 years of separation, the couple has finally been reunited by chance. Will the love they once felt heal the deep wounds and give them a future together?
Gracie is very focused for a woman of almost twenty-six. Her favourite book is The 5 Year Plan: Making The Most Of Your Life. And her five-year plan is going very well. That is, until she is usurped from her big promotion by a handsome, posh idiot; she is dumped by her boyfriend; and discovers her loopy mother is facing bankruptcy.
It's been three years since Lady Sarah Caversham set eyes on arrogant Charles Lennox - the husband her father chose for her to settle a gambling debt. Now Charles has returned, unaware that the innocent ingenue he wed is determined to turn their marriage of convenience into a blissfully passionate affair...
Englishwoman Clio lives in Paris. Twice-married and unhappy in love, she has now become a realist. What she craves above all is stability for her son, Alex, the light of her life. This means she should marry her lover, Philippe, a handsome cultured French
If only Miss Linnet Berry Thrynne hadn't been caught kissing a prince. But the town has quickly conspired to believe Linnet to be with royal child - and therefore unmarriageable - so she might as well make her desperate father happy by consenting to wed a beast. A brilliant surgeon with a reputation for losing his temper - and a wound believed to have left him... incapable - Piers, Earl of Marchant, should welcome a bride-to-be carrying a ready-made, blue-blooded heir. Piers isn't fooled by the lady's subterfuge, and though Linnets devilishly smart and lovely, there will be no wedding of beauty to beast. Still, Linnet finds the gorgeous brute intriguing. And it's obvious to the naked eye that 'incapable' does not mean 'uninterested'. This book has 344 pages and is 17.7cm x 10.7cm x 2.2cm
The events of this novel, set on the Northumbrian coast in the 1960s, take place over one day, a period during which everyone involved discovers that the consequences of an innocent meeting between two young people are far more significant than the event itself.
Averil knows her dazzling beauty can buy her what she wants most: marriage to a great and powerful lord. But fate has other plans in the rugged form of Rhys FitzHugh... Maia can have any man she chooses, namely Emrys Llyn, a descendant of Lancelot and the Lady of the Lake. But dangerous rumours surround the handsome Emrys...
Alistair Carsington really, really wishes he didn't love women quite so much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for Derbyshire, where he hopes to avoid temptation. But this noble aim drops him straight into opposition with Miss Mirabel Oldridge, a
Janey Stafford is involved in an accident when searching for her nephew's father. Luke Bresciano keeps a vigil at her hospital bedside wondering why she is in Crocodile Creek. Luke and Janey go way back... Can they all be reunited - this time as a family?
If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daugher, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst' When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on an inheritance, they place this advertisement in The Morning Post and hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage, the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client, educating them in their School for Manners. Lovely, wealthy and well bred, Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of her terrible clumsiness. Her petite and fastidious mother has tried to mould Clarissa into a dainty miss to fit the fashion - but all her efforts are doomed to failure. And when Clarissa enters the Tribble sister's home, they fear that their reputation for matchmaking success may be destroyed - along with their carpets and furniture! 17.6 x 11 x 1.4 cm, pages 186
Shying away from commitment, Jenna Fallon has only one rule in life: to ignore the rules. So when her car breaks down en route to Vancouver and she's forced to hitch a ride with a sexy stranger, she's thrilled to discover they share the same no-holds-barred views...
Since Tabitha Harris was a child, she'd dreamed about finding her true love. Instead, she usually ended up with a broken heart. The familiarity with such men helped her keep her distance from the handsome and available Nico Valenti. The man had heartbreak written all over him and she didn't want to waste her time or her heart.
As marriage brings an end to a romantic tale, it begins a new story: how does 'happily ever after' really work? While Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley might be expected to get on famously, Mr and Mrs Darcy will surely need to work on their communication skills.
Meredith Whitman has been offered an extraordinary job opportunity in San Francisco, three thousand miles away. Her husband, Steve's job keeps him in New York for months longer than planned. This work explores what happens when lives that fit together like delicately balanced puzzles are shifted, changed and drift apart.
Paris Armstrong never saw it coming. With two grown children and a lovely home in Connecticut, Paris was happy with her marriage, her family, her life. So when her husband of twenty-four years said they needed to talk, Paris couldn't imagine what he was about to say. I want a divorce, Peter tells her.
Ellie has enough on her plate as it is. The new session of the Ontario legislature is in full-swing; and her co-worker is trying to sabotage her career. The last thing Ellie needs is to fall for the wrong guy. And the charming Garrett is definitely the wrong guy. This title presents the political climate in Ontario.
In this romantic comedy, the authors put friendship under the spotlight. Four very different characters are thrust together at the wedding of mutual friends. With the focus so firmly on happy-ever-after, each character is forced to examine his or her own emotions and ambitions.
Heather's new boyfriend is an incredibly nice guy who makes wonderful husband material. Too bad he doesn't raise her temperature above lukewarm. Much as she likes him, she knows he's not The One because he can't give her what she craves. She longs to be dominated by a sexy alpha-male.
To save her village and what's left of her family fortune from her wastrel cousin, gently bred Emily Townsend secretly leads a ring of smugglers. With the king's forces and deadly rivals closing in, she has but one last dangerous shipment to acquire.
A family curse. A mismatched couple. Magic in the air at Martha's Vineyard. Ariel Windsor is home for her cousin's wedding. When she crosses paths with filmmaker Jarad Naughton, nothing is easy. They are as different as night and day. But sparks fly, and these two thrust and parry their way through their own unique battle of the sexes.
Romana leaves her home in Chicago and moves to New York when she learns that her husband is divorcing her to marry his pregnant mistress. She meets Kent Cunningham, a fashion designer who recognizes, under Romana's somewhat dowdy suburban exterior, both her beauty and her potential.
Warning - this novel will leave you with a passion for the finest of food... and the love of your life! Set against the backdrop of many phenomenal Queensland locations, with Paris weaving its magic in and out, on this gastronomic journey of indulgence yo
Cathy Whiteheart has sworn off men, and even Sinclair MacDonald isn't going to change that. She didn't ask to be dragged on to Sinclair's yacht--that was the work of her interfering sister, who saw that Cathy was in need of a break after escaping from an
On the eve of her 75th birthday, Sarah Whitfield stands at the window of her chateau bedroom in France, waiting for her family to join her. As she watches them arrive, she reflects on her turbulent and eventful life. Other work by the author includes Heartbeat and Daddy.
Brought up amid the luxury of plantation life, Marianne Johnston never questions her sheltered life until she joins the Underground Railroad. Soon Marianne is living a dangerous double life, helping slaves flee by night and acting the belle by day. And nothing is riskier than her attraction to wild Southerner Yves Chamard.
A single mother.. . A terrifying blizzard.. . A scorching stranger! Lily Danziger wanted more than the shallow life she'd been living in so-called New England society. She wanted more security than money could buy. So she packed up her newborn daughter an
After a shocking letter and then a mysterious warning about the dangers of unworthy men, Celia Burke is on edge. With her precarious position in society, the merest look could tear her reputation to tatters. And the roguish viscount pursuing her seems interested in far more than just a look...
American-born Sarah is visiting her grandmother in London in 1812, when America and Britain are on the brink of war. She meets Lord Wrenningham who proposes, but Sarah will not marry without love. Her furious Grandmama sends Sarah home to America, on the same ship as Wrenningham. Then war is declared - but will the couple find love?
Begins with sixteen-year-old Tatianna North learning that she has been sold by her family to one of the wealthiest men in Europe. After a few years, Tatianna is freed and moves to New York, where she finds herself at the center of a daring public relations campaign. Her fame leads to her eventual kidnapping and domination by a man.
At a midwinter ball in 1815, attended by West Country society, Beth Tremaine is betrothed to landowner Landry Haldane, who adores her. But she has a secret past. Made penniless by her stepmother, she became a blacksmith's mistress and stole money for a new life.
Haydee Miller is on the brink of panic. When she was sixteen, she swore that she'd be married by her thirty-third birthday. It's part of Haydee's Grand Plan, which saved her sanity when her mother died and her father was too overcome by grief to remember he had a teenage daughter. The Plan has guided Haydee for half her life and never failed her.
It's the day they've always dreamed about. But will it turn out to be a nightmare.. .? Bel is in the midst of planning her perfect wedding when disaster strikes and everything she thought she knew is turned on its head. Can she hold it all together and, with the help of her friends, and a mysterious man she meets unexpectedly, turn disaster into triumph? Bel's friend, ice-cream parlour owner Violet, is engaged to Glyn, who is besotted by her although Violet fell out of love with him long ago. But however trapped she feels in the relationship, she can't quite say the words, 'I don't want to marry you anymore.' Then, just when she's about to give up and resign herself to married life, she finds love in the most surprising of places. Will duty rule her heart or will she allow herself to be swept off her feet? Max was planning a quick registry office do with her fiance Stuart until she sees a TV programme about traveller brides and becomes determined to have the most extravagantly glitzy wedding ever. But in all the excitement has she lost sight of what's really important? Does she want the wedding more than she wants the groom? And as all three friends find the dress of their dreams at the White Wedding bridal shop, its owner, the lovely Freya, guarantees that her gowns will bring them happiness - though maybe not quite in the way they expected.. .
Justin Talbot rules Colorado's most glittering, anything-goes gambling palace. And he never does something for nothing. But if daring Boston aristocrat Charlotte Morland needs his protection from a dangerous enemy, he'll have no choice but to make her business his pleasure...
To sexy CEO Marcus Cortland, Sabryna Givens is the epitome of a challenge. She's beautiful, intelligent, and from their first meeting makes it clear she wants nothing to do with him. He starts to realise that she could be the one woman who could heal his pain. But will they be able to get past their own fears to find each other?
Whispers... rumours... and none of them true, but Connal Delaney cannot escape or explain. If all of County Kildare thinks of him as a scoundrel and seducer, there is nothing the handsome horse trainer can do but endure his loneliness. Then Connal's hard-won peace is shattered by the unexpected arrival of Bethany Doyle.
A vital part of the undeclared war between Spain and England, Nakole Drake's objective was to stay the Spanish invasion by taking away the treasure of New Spain. His was a voyage of utmost peril. Black magic aimed to destroy Drake's expedition. As he sailed into the Pacific, it seemed to rise against him and his ship, the Golden Hind.
Unable to cope with the loss of her child, Alanna fled the Lake District. But now she's discovered she has a daughter! She must learn how to be a mother to her little girl - and the best person to help her is her child's father...the man she still loves...
Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness - beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily.
Scottish fiddler Jake Maclver comes into Kirsty Muir's life and introduces her to a glamorous new world. Kirsty is left broken hearted when Jake disappears off on tour. Her heart is mended by Andrew, owner of a kilt shop and it seems as though Kirsty will
Bale holds Mylana captive in his York castle in the house belonging to Netallia. Nakole has resumed his love affair with Netallia, and he and Mylana are so close - so close and they do not even know it. Elizabeth keeps Bale at court, and Mylana bonds with Bale's mother. This title is part of For Love's Sake Only trilogy.
Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blonde, stylish, married to a successful merchant banker and having raised two daughters, Faith has a life many would envy. But Faith has overcome a childhood marred by tragedy, and has carried within herself a secret she could divulge to no-one.
Having been exposed to senseless tragedy early in her life, aspiring American actress Cassidy Hamilton believes in going after what she wants and pulling no punches while doing so. And at this point in her life, what she wants is a career on the stage and stuffy, older British CEO, Tony Carleton.
Lord James Rushford is the only man in London who can lead Rowena Woolcott to the villain who has been tormenting her family for years, and she will stop at nothing to enlist his help. Even if she must pretend to play a dangerously enticing role: his mistress. Rushford has demons of his own - a dark past that haunts his memories.
Exiled from his beloved Scotland, Jamie Fraser is at last possessed of the land he has longed for. His wife, Claire is blessed with the gift of the knowledge of what is to come. In the past, that knowledge has brought danger and deliverance to them. Now it could be a flickering torch that will light their way through the perilous years ahead.
Marty Matthews swore she would never allow herself to be drawn into the secret, forbidden pleasures that the women she had grown up with enjoyed. Women whose husbands or lovers were members of the Club, where they took a selected third into their beds. Now, Marty is an FBI agent and her new case has put the one man she can't have in her sights.
Since Chase Falladay came to her rescue two years ago, Kia Stanton has never been able to forget the powerful man or the kind of life he leads. So two years later when she runs into Chase and his friend Khalid, and leaves with them that night, she knows exactly where it is all heading.
Jemma Ramsden is seriously peeved. Her brother has given Laird Barras permission to court her. A Scot! She doesn't want to get married. After all, she's well-known for being shrewish and difficult. But her brother has given her a choice: contribute to the household chores, or entertain suitors.
The story of two people whose friendship deepens into love as they meet the obstacles that life presents and face the future together with humour, humanity and courage. Bill Thigpen, divorced and happily living alone in Hollywood, meets the married and pregnant Adrienne Townsend.
He's the oldest of the three Taggart brothers. And the boldest. Tall, dark and rippling with muscle, Danny Taggart takes no prisoners. But when his latest case puts him up close and personal with the woman who once left him raw and aching, he's shell-shocked.
If Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates seem an unlikely pair to be walking together at an Oxford reunion, neither of them is aware of it. They couldn't be more different. With the move to a rural parish, Jane is determined to find her friend the perfect man. This book has 240 pages and is 19.8cm x 13cm x 1.7cm
When Janko returns after fighting for the Double Monarchy in Galici (Poland), he is stationed in Hannelore's town in Austria, where she is a high school teacher. They meet and fall madly in love but her parents are against the marriage, because he is from Slovenia.
In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred-year-old curse.
San Francisco, 1904. Georgia Briscoe, a young woman from a good family, is unwillingly betrothed to businessman Drew Kemp when she falls for handsome British sailor Ellis Cowper. Drew had the charm to dazzle everyone around him, but when the couple are married, it soon transpires that Drew's charm is only skin-deep, and that he is in fact a greedy gambling addict with a penchant for other women, including Georgia's maid Maura and jealous sister Prudence. When Georgia and Maura fall pregnant, both women decide to escape to be with the men they love, providing Prudence with an opportunity to seize Drew - and much more besides. London, 1948. When Chrissie Kemp travels to the Lake District to visit her grandmother Georgia, she is not prepared for the shocking revelation that is about to throw her family into turmoil. As a last act of vengeance on her death bed, Prudence claims that Chrissie's mother Vanessa and her late father Aaran are brother and sister. As the truth unfurls, the passion, emotion and astounding love that occurred in San Francisco forty years ago is revealed, and three generations of the family are tested to their limits.
Jacob Preston has three requirements for a woman desiring access to his bed: She must be enthusiastic in affairs of passion, jaded in matters of the heart, and - to ensure the first two qualifications - she must be married. Lady Julianne Cambourne's unmar
It happened at the ball. Beautiful but bold Lillian Bowman quickly learned that her American ways weren't entirely popular. Finding disapproval the most was the insufferable and impossible Marcus, Lord Westcliff, London's most eligible aristocrat. It happened in the garden. When Marcus shockingly and dangerously swept her into his arms. Suddenly Lillian was overcome with a consuming passion for a man she didn't even like. Luckily avoiding being caught very nearly in the act. It happened one autumn. Marcus, a bedrock of stability, was a man in charge of his emotions. But with Lillian, every touch was exquisite torture, every kiss an enticement for more. But how could he consider taking a woman so blatantly unsuitable... as his bride? It Happened One Autumn is the next alluring Victorian romance in Lisa Kleypas's New York Times bestselling Wallflower series. This book has 378 pages and is 17.7cm x 10.2cm x 2.3cm
A Will and a Way. Headstrong Pandora McVie was always going to find it hard to share her beloved uncle's former home with Michael Donohue, her co-beneficiary of his will. They haven't got along since childhood but as they spend Winter together, they discover they have more in common than they'd ever known. Boundary Lines. Feisty Jillian Baron and irresistibly arrogant Aaron Murdock are determined to carry on the feud that has raged between their neighbouring families for years. But can old legacies compete with their overwhelming desire for each other?
Out on her hen night, Poppy Dunbar meets Tom Kennedy. With his dark eyes and quirky smile, he could lure any girl off the straight and narrow, but what really draws Poppy to him is the feeling that she's known him all her life. Unable to go through with their arranged meeting, she can't go through with the wedding either. Suddenly she becomes 'The Girl Who Jilted Rob MacBride'. Poppy moves to London. She finds herself installed in the bohemian household of Caspar French, a ravishly good-looking young artist with a reputation for breaking hearts. Even in her colourful new home, she can't get Tom off her mind. Until she's tracked him down, she'll never know if their meeting was destiny - or if the future holds something entirely different for her...
Dr Jenny Stapleton has devoted herself to those in need around the globe. In Zaheer she meets Dr Kam Rahman, a man she thinks is only a doctor - but actually he is a sheikh! He is soon to ascend the throne, and knows he wants this desert doctor as his queen!
Society girl Arabella Raynsford is leading a double life as a music hall singer but to escape a possible scandal, she flees to Constantinople to join Florence Nightingale. Arabella's mother wants her to marry Oswald Delaney but she has fallen in love with engineer Nat Sloane, a man her parents will never accept as a suitable husband.
Freya Addison fell for sexy billionaire Zac Deverell. But when Freya announced she was pregnant, Zac threw her out... When they meet again, Zac is furious that Freya is still claiming the baby is his but the passion between them is as strong as ever...
As the villagers of Stoneguard used to say, 'Wherever there's trouble there's Liza Haven...'. But when your identical twin sister is the local golden girl, sometimes it's more fun to be the bad twin. Working in LA as a stuntwoman, her life is as wild as she wants but when she loses her job and almost her life, she's forced to return home. On her return, things have changed, her sister Lee has gone, deserting their difficult mother, a flagging family business and a dangerously attractive boyfriend. What's more the whole village thinks Liza is Lee. can she get away with pretending to be the good twin? Or is it finally time to discover who she really is in this hilarious and heartbreaking story about running away and finding your way home again.
Lady Viola Preston can relieve a gentleman of the studs at his wrists without his being any the wiser and pick any lock devised by man in less than a minute. But she's careful to wear gloves when she steals jewels. When Viola touches a gemstone with her bare skin, it 'speaks' to her, sending disturbing visions.
From the moment honey-tressed young Annabelle meets her sister Minerva's intended, Lord Sylvester, she begins to develop a secret passion for him that obsesses her. But now she is determined to take him away from Minerva - no matter what. One thing Annabelle hadn't reckoned on, is Lord Sylvester's best friend, Peter, who falls in love with her and decides to tame her growing passions for the wrong man!
Monique and Geoff are old enough to know better but with stars in their eyes, they've decided to tie the know - with help (hindrance?) from Geoff's grown-up daughter, his ex-wife, a distracted vicar and a wedding planner with L-plates. Will the couple make it down the aisle?
Georgie and Flick are a girl's best friend - and secret weapon. Their agency, Domestic Angels, provides an invaluable service to armies of harassed women - doing everything from booking a plumber to replacing dead hamsters. Then one day a client makes a strange request: revenge on her lying husband. Soon word is out, and Georgie and Flick are inundated with demands from angry wives. But when a disgruntled husband rumbles them, they find that they aren't the only mistresses of getting even...
Four young ladies enter London Society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband. So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born. Girl number one is Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster. Her exceptional beauty and wit would easily find her a suitable nobleman but Annabelle's most persistent admirer - wealthy, powerful Simon Hunt - has made it clear that he will introduce her to irresistible pleasure, he will not entertain the idea of marriage. Her friends, quickly conspire to find a more suitable gentleman to ensure she is safe from Simon and her own longings. But on one Summer night, Annabelle succumbs to Simon's passionate embrace and tempting kisses, discovering that love is the most dangerous game of all. Secrets of a Summer Night is the first alluring Victorian romance in Lisa Kleypas's New York times bestselling Wallflower series. This book has 346 pages and is 17.7cm x 10.2cm x 2.2cm
Grace has always been in love with Harry. Harry is recently widowed, so Grace knows she must keep her distance. As a cyclone hits the Creek, Harry and Grace are forced together, and Harry's feelings are jolted into an emotional connection he never believed he'd feel again...
Seven years ago, on the eve of her wedding, Lady Jessica Sheffield witnessed Alistair Caulfield in a scandalous scene no innocent young miss could imagine. Shocked, yet strangely titillated, she'd held her silence. But through years of serene, unremarkable marriage, Caulfield's image remained burned into her imagination, fuelling illicit dreams...
Liz Jones lived the perfect urban life: the immaculate Georgian townhouse in a leafy London square, the glamorous career in fashion journalism, and the much younger husband. But then it all goes wrong: Liz's husband has been having numerous affairs, and she realises that her pursuit of perfection will never make happy. And so she decides to start all over again - in the middle of the wild Exmoor countryside. But has she taken on more than she bargained for? Liz realises that her horse is so nervous she can't catch her, that despite twenty years of aerobics classes she cannot even lift a bale of hay, and that in all probability she will have mud in her hair for the rest of her life. But as her menagerie of animals begins to grow things gradually start to change. Can Liz and he horse really learn to trust, love and live again?
Carol married young - to philandering Phil; and became a mother young - to highly-strung Jaz. Carol put up with Phil's infidelities: suffer in silence and keep the family together was her mantra. Not so Jaz. The moment she discovers her own husband Ian's errant ways, with a woman he barely knew, she throws him out of the house, changes the locks and bans him from seeing their toddler son Matty. In so many ways independent and strong, where her daughter is concerned Carol is a coward.
When Jaz finds out that her mother has enlisted the support of Ian's father David to try to get her back together with Ian, Jaz is beyond furious and disappears with Matty. With a deft lightness of touch - and a dash of unexpected romance - Kate Long takes us into the heart of this mixed-up but utterly recognisable family who fight for what they believe in, even if it puts the closest members on opposing sides.
This book has 454 pages ans is 19.8cm x 13cm x 2.9cm
Three ambitious, rivalrous sisters. And a deadly secret, which one of them is determined to keep buried at any cost. .. Deeley is the fake wife of a Hollywood TV hunk, who is secretly gay. But Deeley's five-year contract is up, and his cut-throat publicist wants Deeley out. So, dejected and penniless, Deeley wends her way home to London, hoping to re-establish links with her two estranged elder sisters. ..Devon is married to the nation's-favourite-rugby-hunk Matt, and has her own highly successful TV career, as the sexy hostess of her own cookery show. But behind her buxom facade, Devon is lonely and frustrated, and when a live celebrity cook-off shows her up as a fraud, she leaves sweet Matt and runs off to Tuscany, to learn a few lessons - not just in cookery - from an Italian master. Lastly, there's Maxie: a politician's wife, Maxie is fiercely ambitious. She's furious when Deeley, hard on her luck, sells the sisters' childhood story to a tabloid newspaper, revealing their impoverished roots and unsavoury parentage. The story undermines Maxie's carefully cultivated image, and the fallout threatens to be devastating. But Maxie is only too aware that there is much more Deeley could yet reveal. What murderous secret lies in the sisters' past? And just how far will Maxie go to keep it buried? This book has 389 pages and is 19.7cm x 13cm x 2.5cm
Poppy Meadows has a face of rare beauty. She lives with her widowed mother and her brother. Enjoying life just like any other 19 year old. The only blot in her life is her dreadful boss in the office where she works... This book has 469 pages and is 19.8cm x 13cm x 3.1cm
Two feuding families, two love stories and a lot of delicious Italian food... Settled in London and with their own taste of home in the form of their restaurant, Little Italy, the Martinellis are a typical Italian family: fighting, eating and loving in equal measure. Now Pieta's sister is getting married, and Pieta will make the wedding gown. But she is distracted by a series of mysteries. Why is her father feuding with another Italian family? Why is her mother so troubled? And could the man she's always had a torch for really be getting married to someone else? As the wedding draws nearer, Pieta uncovers the secrets that have made her family what it is - and may stand between her and happiness...
Nancy Brody is different from the rest of the folk in Angel Meadow, the appalling slum where her drunken mother Kitty was a prostitute... Only nine years old, Nancy decides to save her sisters Mary and Rose from the workhouse. She gets work for them all at the Monarch Cotton Manufacturing Mill - and then sets out to better herself and her sisters. Saving every penny, working every waking hour, Nancy succeeds, becoming a manufacturer herself. But happiness seems as elusive for Nancy as it was when she was a mistreated child. Though he once said he loved her, Mick O
Set between the years 1938-48, this is the story of three generations of women living in the same house during the war years. Aggie, the grandmother, is a strong matriarchal figure, who keeps the family together - until her age begins to get to her and Grace, the main central character, starts to look after her. Hetty, the mother, is happily married to Sam but they are tragically killed when a bomb hits the cinema they are in. Grace, Vi and Polly are the daughters whose lives are particularly affected by the outbreak of war and we see how they cope with air raid sirens, rationing, war work - and love. This book has 376 pages and is 17.6 x 10.8 x 2.5 cms
Hastings is so uncool. Plunging headfirst into adolescence Rachel and Susan are determined to survive their teens by sticking together. In a rollercoaster ride of nutty parents, stoned hippies, randy language students, all-night parties on the pier, and an amusement arcade of emotional neediness. Enter Dave, sophisticated art student and unobtainable older boyfriend, changes everything between them. The Girls soon find themselves together in London and discover their dreams of sex, drugs and Rock'N'Roll don't quite match the reality. This book has 373 pages and is 19.7cm x 12.8cm x 2.4cm.
For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end. The size of this book is 19.6cm in height and 12.6cm wide with 214 pages.
Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy, sophisticated world of Bath in the late 1790s. Austen observes with insight and humour the interaction between Catherine and the various characters whom she meets there, and tracks her growing understanding of the world about her.
In this, her first full-length novel, Austen also fixes her sharp, ironic gaze on other kinds of contemporary novel, especially the Gothic school made famous by Ann Radcliffe. Catherine's reading becomes intertwined with her social and romantic adventures, adding to the uncertainties and embarrassments she must undergo before finding happiness. 19.8 x 12.9 x 1, pages 198
All the Possibilities. Shelby Campbell is nothing like any woman ambitious Alan MacGregor has ever known, she's creative, compelling and unconventional. But can powerful and attractive Alan convince Shelby that their night of passion could become a life-time of love? One Man's Art. Withdrawn from the world, Grant Campbell's world is interrupted when Genvieve's car broke down, forced to take shelter with Grant. Their attraction is undeniable but can Genvieve bring light back into Grant's life?
When she was young, Steffie Wyler always knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life: 1. Make ice cream. 2. Marry the coolest boy in town. 3. Live happily ever after. These days, Steffie is the proud owner of One Scoop or Two, a wildly popular ice cream parlor. But the cool guy left town right after high school, before they could scratch the surface of their mutual attraction to see what, if anything, lay beneath. Steffie's made a great life for herself in St. Dennis, but true love has never come knocking.
Wade MacGregor left for college in Texas and remained there to start a successful business with his best friend, Robin Kennedy, but he's always felt something was missing. Then life throws him a curveball: A third partner has robbed the company blind, and Robin has died-but not before entrusting Wade with a precious secret. Now back in St. Dennis, Wade's determined to do whatever it takes to protect his friend's legacy-and to figure out, once and for all, if the sparks that fly whenever he's with Steffie are just temporary fireworks or the lights in the window leading him home.
Dolph Robicheck abandons his career as a concert pianist to become the protege of a wealthy industrialist, learning his way around the financial world and spending a number of years as one of Europe's wealthiest bachelors. But Dolph's world changes when he marries his boss' daughter, Alahna.
Sylvie Delamare is incredulous when Sir George, her crusty, reclusive, great-uncle sends her GBP 20, saying it is half of what is left of her inheritance, due to her when she is twenty-one. Her parents were wealthy, and Sylvie, furious, determines to go to Norfolk and confront him.
With onkly weeks to go until her Dublin wedding, Molly Jackson is happily anticipating married life. She has everyting she has ever wanted, her eccentric but loving family, a awesome job, agaony aunt, her love life with the love of her life Declan, but suddenly a bombshell is dropped by Declan, he has to go abroad, the wedding must be postponed, what will happen to the love and happy Molly when her world is turned upside down. 19.6 x 12.9 x 2.7, pages 401
The New Year looms and Dulcie, Liza and Pru are ready with their resolutions. Hitting your 30s means it's definitely time to sort yourself out! Dulcie thinks marriage sucks even though her husband is dishy, witty and charming. Desperate for more excitement in her life, she wants a divorce. Liza, on the other hand, wants to get married. She has no one in mind, but attracting men has never been a problem. Trouble is, once she's got a man, she can never stay interested. Pru has the self esteem of a squeegee mop and she loves her roving husband. She can't imagine a life without him and all Pru wants is to stay married. With no idea what New Year has in store, Fate has some sneaky plans up her sleeve.
Adele Russell was once a wealthy heiress, engaged to David, the Earl of Blaisdon, but when her father was ruined, she lost everything, including David. But when she finds an invitation to a masked ball, Adele is tempted by the lures of her past once more. David and a mysterious Sir Mask attend the ball and Sir Mask is intent upon seducing her.
Catherine Oliphant is a writer, living with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks. Added to this love tangle are the activities of Deirdre's fellow students as they attempt to win the competition for a research grant. This book has 262 pages and is 19.6cm x 12.4cm x 1.8cm
Jake McKenna fixes planes, not people. Compared to an engine, humans are high-maintenance and unpredictable - which is why Jake has zero interest in indulging his sister's request that he play tour guide and rent-a-date to her boss's visiting stepdaughter. Still, Lauren Matthews is nothing like the uptight, reed-skinny workaholic he expected.
Meg Fraser, widowed in the early weeks of WWI, has vowed to preserve the family farm for her son, Will, and daughter, Isobel, but has made a dangerous enemy in neighbour Dod Grant. He makes it plain that he can ruin the business if she continues to oppose him. Later, when Dod is found dead, Will is accused of the murder.
She'd rather curl up with Pride and Prejudice and step into a time where men were honourable and strode across fields in breeches, their damp shirts clinging to their chests. The men she meets are more into pleated trousers, two-timing and internet porn. So when her best friend invites her to Mexico for a week of margaritas and manhunting. Emily books a guided tour of Jane Austen country instead. There are no dream men here. The coach is full of pensioners, apart from one Spike Hargreaves, a foul-tempered journalist writing a piece on why most women would love to date Mr Darcy. But then she walks into a room and finds herself face-to-face with Darcy himself. And every woman's fantasy suddenly becomes one woman's reality...
Tarquin, the powerful Duke of Sconce, knows perfectly well that the decorous and fashionably slender Georgiana Lytton will make him a proper duchess. But he can't stop thinking about her twin sister, the headstrong, curvy and altogether unconventional Olivia? Olivia is betrothed to another man, but their improper - albeit intoxicating - flirtation makes her unsuitability even clearer. Determined to make a perfect match, Tarquin methodically cuts Olivia from his thoughts, allowing logic and duty to triumph over passion... until, in his darkest hour, he begins to wonder if perfection has anything to do with love. In order to win Olivia's hand he would have to give up all the beliefs he holds most dear, and surrender hearts, body and soul - but it may already be too late. This book has 388 pages and is 17.7cm x 10.7cm x 2.6cm
The Darby-Jones boarding house in Ruby Falls, New York, is home to Mona Jones and her daughter, Oneida, two loners and self-declared outcasts who have formed a perfectly insular family unit. But their small, quiet life is upended when Arthur Rook shows up.
A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes shoemaker Valentine Roncalli from the winding streets of New York's Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Bueno Aires. Here, she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. Once discovered, the truth shakes the Roncallis, while Valentine is torn between a past love that nurtured her and a new one that promises to last a lifetime...
Lucy Tyler and Henry Fox are childhood best friends. When given the chance, Lucy and her friends Dominique and Erin relish the opportunity to help Henry with a proposed makeover. There are also master classes in flirting and seduction in addition to the new haircut and wardrobe.
Project Henry is a runaway success. Henry
Professional photographer and dedicated fashionista Sarah Quinn is getting married. She's marrying gorgeous older man and gentleman farmer Mackenzie Campbell, the proud owner of Thistledown Manor in Scotland. Sarah and her friends travel down from London to Thistledown for the fabulous Christmas Eve wedding. As the first snow of winter begins to fall, Sarah overhears something that makes her change her mind. Running away to Redstone, a tiny village on the west coast of Ireland, Sarah rents Rose Cottage, making new friends especially one mysterious young man called Ethan Reilly. Will Sarah ever return to her former life in London? Or will she decide to stay in Redstone forever? This book has 338 pages and is 19.7cm x 13cm x 2.4
When Del Montgomery's boss sends her to the Missouri Ozarks in search of a legendary pottery pig, her mission seems simple: figure out which of the locals has the pig and convince them to sell it for peanuts. Local auctioneer Sam Samson could be the perfect secret weapon. But is it possible to resist a tall, dark, guy who's as sly as he is sexy?