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Rowan Thorpe can be forgiven for living with one foot in the past. Since having to say goodbye far too young to the future she had planned, moving on still feels a daunting task. So, when historian Connor O’Keefe strides purposefully into her office and life, looking far too handsome for his own good and threatening to undermine the local legends she holds close to her heart, she is more than a little unsettled.

I was so excited to welcome Anastasia Drummond to our pretty little street. But the moment I meet her, my heart stops. Because I know those ice-cold eyes. She looks like my husband’s ex-wife. The one who went missing. The one declared dead over a decade ago.

All her life, Natalie Fisher has been taught not to ask questions. Why risk uncovering uncomfortable truths, when you can stay in the safety of blissful denial? Since taking over the family herb farm, Natalie has stuck with what she knows, rarely venturing much further than the nearby village where her invalid mother now lives. But then, one day, everything changes with the arrival of unexpected visitors.

When Fee finds herself drunk, dumped and directionless on Valentine's Day, she stumbles across a flyer for The Disappointed Valentines' Club. There's Margot, in the middle of a bitter divorce; Annie, whose husband of forty years she suspects is having an affair; Wren, quietly nursing her own romantic regrets; and Fraser, who may have mistaken the group for a dating opportunity. For Fee, who's only just holding on to any self-worth she had left, the club offers something she never expected: purpose, friendship and maybe even a fresh start.

When Leah caught the train that day, it should have been the escape she longed for. A new start, away from the terrible things she had done. She had no idea how that jounrey would change her life forever... Because when the train is involved in a terrible crash, Leah is given a moment to reassess her life. Can she make amends for what she did? Can she start again?

Andi Glover loves nothing more than a good book. Any book in fact because when you’re raised by unconventional parents who think school’s for squares, fiction is eminently preferable to reality. The only problem is that fiction isn’t the best way to learn about the real world. When Andi starts her new live-in job at Templewood Hall for the eccentric Lady Dawe and her enigmatic son Hugo, it’s tempting to think she’s fallen into the pages of one of her favourite gothic novels. But the plot twists at Templewood Hall are stranger than fiction.

Since escaping his family’s notoriety in Australia, Will Kidd has been content to live the life of a wanderer, but everything changes when he comes face to face with a ghost from his past on a cloudy beach in Liverpool. Every step of Hannah Dawson's life has been laid out for her...until she meets Will. Their love is forbidden, and forces on all sides divide them. They will have to fight against the odds to find their way back to one another.

Isabel, Izzy to her friends, has got nothing left to lose when she makes the bravest decision of her life. A month living under canvas on the Yorkshire Moors with five strangers wouldn’t normally be her idea of a good time, even if there is prize money to be won at the end of it, but she’s all out of options. Joining her in this wild goose chase, being filmed for a TV show, are farmer Seb, sheltered Ruth, glamorous socialite Kanga, American Junior who has his own secret that has led him there, and mysterious and brooding Mac, who Izzy can’t help but be drawn to.

Castle Priory is a crumbling Oxfordshire mansion, one Brian Blackstone's wife considered a place of extraordinary enchantment. But for Brian there is no enchantment, only the burden of trying to honor Sarah's dying wish that he hold onto the property. With the local doctor, Cecilia Keeble, Brian...

London, 1891: Harriet Cameron and her beloved sister, Sarah, have been brought up by their father, radical thinker James. But when adventurer Henry Vincent arrives on the scene, the sisters' lives are changed forever. Sarah marries Henry and embarks on a voyage to Australia. Harriet, intensely missing Sarah, must decide whether to help her father with his life's work or to devote herself to painting.

The latest nerve-shredding thriller from the bestselling author of The Dinner Party… When Leah Talbot hits a deer on a deserted road she spots a light on in a nearby house and approaches, hoping that someone is home. Martin Tate, a charming and handsome man answers the door to the bedraggled...

Right place. Right time. Wrong guy … ‘The novel equivalent of binge watching a tv series…"just one more chapter, who cares if it's 2am!" It's exactly the sort of novel you need with so much chaos in the world’ Sarah, Reader review After breaking up with her childhood sweetheart, clueless...