'Brilliant, sparkling and very clever' Elizabeth Buchan‘It’s not a fair world I’m afraid. Beauty or fortune carries the day. You have the beauty and I the fortune, so there’s every chance we’ll succeed’In Regency England, marriage is everything. For young widow Sybella Lovatt, the time has come to find a suitable husband for her sister and ward Lucie. Male suitors are scarce near their Wiltshire estate, so the sisters resolve to head to London in...

Courage and romance on the eve of World War Two.World War Two is about to start. What if you had to leave everything you knew behind?It’s 1938 and hard-working Lily Baker’s life turns upside down when she and her family move to a new town. Two jobs leave little free time, yet she becomes involved in a struggle to improve her area. Pushed by the group leader she undertakes tasks she previously thought impossible, and meets the man of her dreams. Amidst homesickness, looming ...

Newly escaped from a loathsome engagement of convenience, Charlotte has no interest in romance.More than ever, she is convinced that no man would—or could—love her. As companion to an aging aunt, Charlotte’s new life is as predictable as it is circumspect.But on Christmas Eve she is rescued from a robbery by her uncle’s heir, a masterful man who is disastrously handsome.Why has he remained as a guest in the house? Why is he so determined to draw Charlotte out and ma...

Ever so wholesome.Ever so deadly...When a local man is found murdered in an English Trust stately home, the community is shaken to its core.None more so than newcomer Astrid Swift, who finds the body. When she moved from London to the sleepy Dorset village and got a job at the house as an art restorer, she thought she was heading for a quieter life.Far from it. Because it turns out that rather than being the genteel organisation it seems on the surface, the Trus...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Pamela Crane, comes an unmissable new psychological thriller. What causes a woman to murder her family? Jo's idyllic life would make most people jealous. Until one day, her daughter is abducted and the only way to find her is to unravel her dark past. Ellie is a devoted wife... until she discovers the pain of betrayal. Now vengeance is all she can think about. Party-girl Shayla knows how to hide her demons. But when she's confronted with a life-shattering...

(The Prairies Book Review *****) "Original and creative … a compelling story... a celebration of feminine power... this story will stay with readers long after the final page."What happens when your life’s training is about “duty” and then the very foundations of your life are taken away?Ellen’s courageous, impetuous, a dreamer, and not very ambitious. Her father, Si’Empra’s elected ruler, dies and her brother takes his place. He’s brutal and abusi...

As I stare at the girl, I feel my heart pound inside my chest. There she is, my daughter, right in front of me after all this time. I have to reach her, to hold her, before I lose her all over again…I have experienced what no mother should: I have lost my child. Many years ago, after my divorce, my daughter moved in with her father, and then went missing...For years, I searched everywhere for my darling girl, but she had vanished without a trace. But even on my darkest days...

How hard can it be to find a proper wife?Faced with a lonely future and finding himself strapped for cash (as the young bucks say), Persuasion’s Sir Walter Elliot manfully decides that the time has come to marry again.His choice is a young woman of breeding and distinction. But alas, Sir Walter’s vanity is his undoing. He refuses to use his spectacles and so sends a Valentine to the wrong Lady Catherine. What a disaster!That is, until Sir W...

Darcy simply must marry Anne. It is his duty, for pity's sake!And yet the man has done nothing. Anne de Bourgh isn’t getting any younger—and neither is Anne’s mother, Lady Catherine. Darcy must fulfill her late sister’s dearest wish!But when Lady Catherine gets a look at the Collins’ lovely house guest, steel enters her soul. Darcy must marry Anne and soon!Inspired by a rubbishy novel found in the garden, Lady Catherine takes matters into her own ...

Amateur sleuth Astrid Swift swaps the sporting summer in England for a British expat enclave in Spain, where everyone has a mysterious reason for leaving the UK.The sunniest days, the deadliest nights.It's the end of the summer season in the harbour town of Estepona. The holiday makers are heading home, leaving the British expats to reclaim their little corner of paradise. Among them is art restorer Astrid Swift's estranged father. She's sailed into town to reunite with him ...

Amateur sleuth Astrid Swift faces a maritime mystery in this cosy crime adventure set on the Isle of Wight.It's high summer and, with the grisly events at Dorset's Sherborne Hall behind her, Astrid Swift sets sail for the Isle of Wight. She's been asked to value a collection of maritime art owned by a recently deceased millionaire.His surviving daughter has inherited the art along with the family's seafront mansion, The Needle's Eye, and wants to sell up. There are too many...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Mary Farren went into the gun room one morning about half-past eleven, took her husband's revolver and loaded it, then shot herself. The butler heard the sound of the gun from the pantry...'The fourteen haunting stories in this collection span the whole of Daphne du Maurier's writing career and explore every human emotion: an apparently happily married woman commits suicide; a steamer in wartime is rescued by a mysterious sailing-ship; a...