She is alone and homeless, he is wealthy and powerful – why is he desperate to erase their past?When Alice arrives home from the school run with her two children to find herself locked out of her apartment, she doesn’t realise at first that she is also locked out of her life. The man she loves is in line for the top job in the country, and a secret mistress and two daughters are not part of the plan.Alice finds herself plunged into a situation that is alien to her and for w...

Life may have its ups and downs, but journalist Jennifer Banks has had more than most. Having survived childhood verbal bullying, 17 years with a eating disorder and six years trapped in a violent marriage in a foreign country, Jennifer has now been diagnosed with the debilitating illness Multiple Sclerosis.After a childhood bully tormented her for being overweight, Jennifer became bulimic and battled constantly with low self esteem. She ran away to London, hoping to escape the dem...

Bohenna is a small Cornish village, dominated by a thriving vineyard and the Pennyman family who run it. It’s an insular community, all gossip and rumour and intertwined lives. Claire knows everyone; she grew up there. She even married into the Pennyman family.Every summer tourists swarm over the vineyard and village. So when Claire’s young daughter disappears without trace, it’s obvious to everyone that a visitor took her. Who else would do such a thing?Six years later, he...

On the 21st June 2007 Alexandra Kavanagh left home,chatted to her neighbour, got onto the DART, arrived at Dalkey train station and disappeared . . .Tom is distraught. His wife is missing, his world has fallen apart and his only focus is on finding her.For seventeen years, Jane has cared for her son Kurt, her eccentric sister Elle, and her cantankerous mother Rose.The only person she doesn’t care for is herself.Elle is an artist and recognised as a g...

Marion Dante always knew she would be a nun. She was her mother’s ‘‘sin offering’’, pledged to God even before her birth. So, at the age of fourteen, she entered a convent.Ten years later, she was wrestling with doubts and misery. Shunned by the nuns, her only ‘‘family’’, she set out on the long road to freedom. But freedom was a terrifying prospect. Like a caged bird she clung to her prison bars.Wearing a short skirt, ordering a cup of tea in a café, making everyda...

Get the first three books in the Poppy McGuire Mysteries Series and see why readers love Poppy and Alex and their partnership in solving crime!The Eleventh Hour (Poppy McGuire Mysteries #1)Poppy McGuire has always been a curious soul, but it's her life that's usually the topic of conversation in the small town of Sunset Ridge. But now one of the town's most important citizens has been found murdered, and everyone's life is suspect.W...

Simon Brook is a celebrated and flamboyant conductor. When he kills himself, his wife Alex is shocked she didn’t see it coming. Guilt-ridden and grieving, she escapes to Hillen Hall, an old house by the sea, abandoning her classical singing career and distancing herself from everyone but her sister Erica.Hillen Hall is an old Brook family home. Once a fine manor house, it is now creaking and unloved. When Theo Hellyon, Simon's cousin, turns up offering to help with its renovation, ...

Lily-May, wife of Detective Murray and mother to beautiful Callie, tragically goes missing, with her daughter witnessing the ordeal, but unable to save her mother from the captor's grip. Will Callie be able to live with herself?A mystery as to where she is or how she got there and to stay alive, Lily begins a new life pretending to be someone else. Will she ever be found, or will her captor carry out the unthinkable when he learns her true identity?Back home, Lily's husband...

An admirable doctor in charge of a small, isolated hospital in outback Australia swaps his wife’s second stillborn baby for an identical twin born to an impoverished farmer’s wife who already has seven other children. Both mothers are unaware of the deception.  Only one person, apart from the doctor, knows what happened, but no one believes him as he is considered to be mentally deficient.  The doctor leaves for Ireland immediately afterwards so that his crime, committed on impulse, will r...

Ever get the feeling you don’t really belong in your family, that you’re completely different to your relatives?That’s how 30-year-old interior decorator Harri Ryan has felt since she was a child despite being close to George, her twin brother, and loving parents Gloria and Duncan.It’s the second time Harri has tried to marry her fiancé James, and the second time she’s had a panic attack, ended up in hospital in her wedding dress and the celebrations have to be called off.

Tick, tock . . .Workaholic Eve Hayes is burnt out and lonely. At the age of thirty-eight, she’s afraid she has allowed the chance of a real and worthwhile life pass her by.Lilly Donovan got married too young and over the years she's become a prisoner and slave in her own home.Eve survives a horrific car accident only to be reunited with her old friend, Lily. A long time ago these two women were inseparable but the events of one terrible night ended their friendship a...

A young man emerges from a car crash on a remote road in Boston. Although he walks away unscathed the crash has claimed an innocent life.Sixteen years later Melanie Yeats walks into a Garda station with her hands stained in blood. As she gradually reveals her story the detectives are left with more questions than answers.What is the connection between Melanie, her missing husband, the car crash in Boston and the death of a young woman? Is Melanie a murderer or a victim? Who...