Penny Batchelor

Mum-of-two Audrey only looks away from the stroller for a moment, as her daughter runs off across the park. But the next thing she knows, her baby son is rolling towards the lake. When Claire steps in to prevent disaster, Audrey is beyond grateful. She can't imagine what would have happened if...

She knows all your darkest secrets... Now she's the woman next door. 'It can't be. Please God, don't let it be. I left all that behind over twenty-five years ago. Didn't I?' We've just got home after two weeks of sun, sea and relaxation when the doorbell rings. My husband answers and as soon as...

The outsider. The geek. The football star. The quiet one. The good Samaritan. They're five unlikely people who wouldn't have met if not for Tania Armstrong-Jones. Widely popular and the resident It girl, she stormed into each of their lives with her beguiling grace and an inseparable friendship...

Annie is five when her beloved big sister, Gemma, leaves for school and is never seen again. The police search for weeks and Annie never gives up hope that Gemma will one day come home to her. Now, twenty years after her sister mysteriously vanished, Annie returns to her childhood home to care...

I should have known it was too good to be true. I have everything I ever wanted. The perfect husband. The perfect family. The perfect home. And now someone is hell bent on destroying it all. It was so long ago and we were so young. That Scottish summer I met Niamh. We had a blast, the best of...