A stunning & powerful contemporary love story from one of the best storytellers this century. What if everything you believed ...

Liz Jones is Fashion Editor of the Daily Mail & a columnist for the Mail on Sunday. She is the former editor of Marie Claire which sounds quite an achievement but she was sacked three years in. A psychotherapist once told her ' What you brood on will hatch' & she was right. Nothing Liz ever did in life ever worked out. Nothing. Not one single thing. Liz grew up in Essex the youngest of seven children. Her mother was a martyr her dad so dashing that no other man could ever live up to his pressed & polished standards. Her siblings terrified her with their Afghan coats cigarettes parties sex & drugs. They made her father shout & her mother cry. Liz became an anorexic aged eleven an illness that continues to blight her life today. She remained a virgin until her thirties & even then found the wait wasn't really worth it; it was just one more thing to add to her to do list. She was named Columnist of the Year 2012 by the British Society of Magazine Editors but is still too frightened to answer the phone too filled with disgust at her own image to glance in the mirror or eat a whole avocado. She lives alone with her four rescued collies three horses & seventeen cats. Girl Least Likely To is the opposite of 'having it all'. It is a life lesson in how NOT to be a woman. ...

WOULD YOU GIVE UP THE WOMAN YOU LOVE IF HER DEATH COULD SAVE MILLIONS? Rachel Case went to the doctor for a routine blood donation. Now she is the most valuable woman in history. For Rachel possesses a unique gene
- a marker that holds the key to protecting the world from a pandemic that could wipe out humanity. The government are desperate for Rachel's DNA. So desperate they've sent in a squad to take her to a top-secret high-security facility. Only Donovan Creed killer-for-hire & Rachel's lover can free her. But only Rachel's husband Sam knows where she is. & he hates Creed with a passion...
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The first body is a mystery. Shes young. Shes beautiful. & her corpse laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak betrays no secrets
- except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand seven numbers scrawled inside. The next body is a warning. When a second victim is discovered Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets. The police are sceptical. The mayor wont listen. & Kats chief suspect is one of the towns most prominent citizens. The final body.. .might be hers. With the death toll rising Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is closer than she ever dreamt. & every move she makes could be her very last.
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What makes a house a home? For Eve Gallagher home is miles away in England since she & her husband relocated to an apartment building on New Yorks Upper East Side. & life isnt remotely coming up roses. What makes a neighbour a friend? violet has lived in the building for decades but shes always kept herself apart until Eves loneliness touches her heart & friendship blossoms. What makes a wife a lover? Jason Kramer in Apartment 6A is no longer sure he loves his wife but hes head-over-heels for Rachael Schulman in 6B. What makes the girl next door the woman of your dreams? Meeting Emily Mikanowski from 3A turns Trip Graylings world upside down. Its love at first sight but he needs help from Charlotte the shy romance addict in 2A if hes going to win the girl. Dreams come true hearts are broken & no one is left unchanged when the secrets & desires hidden behind closed doors are finally brought into the light. ...

One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti & Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair & he sees a small foot
- together he & Vianello lift a dead girl from the water. But inconceivably no one has reported a missing child nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries. Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity her family & for the secrets that people will keep in order to protect their children
- be they innocent or guilty. From the canals & palazzi of Venice to a gypsy encampment on the mainland Brunetti struggles with institutional prejudice & entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child.

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Cas Lowood is no ordinary ghost hunter
- he's in love with a dead girl. Her name is Anna Korlov. Anna Dressed in Blood. The girl
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Just a few months ago Tom Boyd was a multi-million-selling author living in LA in love with a world-famous pianist. But after a very public break-up hes shut himself away suffering from total writers block with only drink & drugs for company. One night a beautiful naked stranger appears in Toms house. She claims to be Billie a character from his novels who has fallen into the real world because of a printers error in his latest book. Crazy as her story sounds; Tom comes to see that this must be the real Billie. & she wants to strike a deal with him: if he writes his next novel she can go back to the world of fiction; in return she will help him win back his beloved Aurore. What does he have to lose? ...

Why has a secret from 1914 caused a century of heartache? Troubled by recent loss Grania Ryan has returned to Ireland & the arms of her loving family. & it is here on a cliff edge that she first meets a young girl Aurora who will profoundly change her life. Mysteriously drawn to Aurora Grania discovers that the histories of their families are strangely & deeply entwined... From a bittersweet romance in wartime London to a troubled relationship in contemporary New York from devotion to a foundling child to forgotten memories of a lost brother the Ryans & the Lisles past & present have been entangled for a century. Ultimately it will be Aurora whose intuition & remarkable spirit help break the spell & unlock the chains of the past. Haunting uplifting & deeply moving Auroras story tells of the triumph of hope over loss. ...

Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy decent but boring husb&. Part of this routine involves occasional visits to Beinn Caorrun the dank & gloomy house in a Scottish glen that Michael inherited. There are memories there that Michael will not share with her. But then Michael begins to change. It starts when he thinks he sees in a picture the figure of a girl on a landing. As he changes life becomes so much more fun & Elizabeth sees glimpses of a man she can fall in love with at last. But who
- or what
- is changing Michael.. .?

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