Matt Lowell never set out to be a hero…but he wasn't given a choice.As a wildfire rages in the canyons around Malibu, Matt Lowell races along the edge of the surf in a desperate attempt to reach his house and save his dog, Barney. But as he runs...
The novel from the Guardian First Book Award-winning Chinese writer acclaimed by Michel Faber as having ‘the talent, the vision and the respect for life's insoluble mysteries to be a truly fine writer.’In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in...
The Princess–New Orleans's most luxurious hotel. Sixty years ago, ownership of the hotel was lost to the powerful Jardine family in a wager that cost its matriarch her greatest love. Now, in a daring bid to keep the hotel, her legacy and her...
“Nobody does romantic suspense better than Carla Neggers." —Providence Journal Three years after the sudden death of her husband, Lucy Blacker Swift has finally got things under control. Leaving behind the cutthroat world of Washington, Lucy and...
Seven months pregnant and head over heels in love, Vivi Ann McFadden is busy pulling together the final details for her wedding to Lewis Heart, famous play-by-play announcer for the Crimson Tide.But with two wedding-planners-gone-wild, a psychic...
Finding Mr Right and saying ‘yes’ was just the beginning. A delightfully romantic read for fans of Trisha Ashley and Chris Manby.After listening to her friends’ latest travails in love, parenting, and careers, superstitious bride-to-be Nicole...
January 1813–the British army is preparing to cross the Pyrenees and advance against Napoleon's army. Only one thing stands in the way–funds. It will take two people masquerading as lovers to carry out a dangerous plan…Despite inheriting the...
Why do the fingerprints of a recent murder victim in New York City belong to a man who has been dead for over thirty years? To find out, FBI agent Jack Dolan heads to the victim's last known address: a boardinghouse in Braden, Montana.Most of...
This Game Is Getting All Too RealSam Tracy likes to stay under the radar and hang out with his friends from the Rez. But when he saves rich suburban princess Riley Berenger from falling off a mountain, she decides to try to save him. Riley...
NEW on ebook for the first time with NEW author afterword.He’s out of sight, she’s out of her mind.Polly Fenton is about to embark on a year-long teachers’ exchange to America. Swapping cottage pie for corn dogs is one thing, but trading lives...
The best of the bucking bulls are rank…and so are the cowboys who ride them!Cole grabbed my arm. “You don’t need to do this. I got myself into this mess. I’ll live with the consequences.”I exhaled and slid Shae-Lynn’s pink armband over my...
A woman, an obsession, an unforgettable bestseller.Television war correspondent Nicky Wells is a media superstar. Courageous, beautiful and renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the world’s most dangerous trouble spots, her life is...
Everybody’s talking – but what’s really going on?Rumour has it that Stella Hutton landed her new job thanks to family connections. She’s guarded about her past and private about her new life.Over in Long Dansbury, there’s always a rumour...
For the ultimate in glamour, it has to be Tilly Bagshawe. Perfect escapism for fans of Penny Vincenzi and Jilly Cooper.Sasha Miller comes to Cambridge with a dream and leaves on a mission. After falling for the lies and charms of her Director of...
We all have our secrets. It’s just some are bigger than others…Joe has a beautiful house, a great job, no commitments – and he likes it like that. All he needs is a quiet house-sitter for his rambling old place by the sea. When Tess turns up on...
Mary Alice Monroe returns to the captivating and mystical South Carolina Lowcountry, a place of wild beauty and untamed hearts, to tell the moving story of healing, hope and new beginnings…. E.R. nurse Ella Majors has seen all the misery that...
A deranged young man holds over one hundred school children hostage…and he blames the school for what he’s about to do After a tense, thirty-six-hour stand-off, the gym suddenly explodes into flames. Fortunately, all the students have escaped....
How should a young woman live now?Lily is waiting, as ever, for the weekend, waiting to get out of the city, waiting for that ever-elusive, life-defining, climactic episode, the one that will ‘explain to me everything that’s gone before, and...
Three girls are finding themselves in the most romantic city in the world and this will be one night they will never forget…A hot and sexy short story from the author of Idol and Diva.Dionne Summers arrived in Paris with one ambition: to be a...
‘Terrific stuff . . . a real weepy’ The TimesOne Love. One Chance. Once Sacrifice.For Sam McGrath a brief encounter with a young woman, on a turbulent flight, changes his life. On impulse, crazily attracted to her, her vows to follow her – all...
Behind the doors of the pavilion, a world of sensuality and intrigue awaits…Xiang Xiang’s life as an innocent girl is about to change beyond recognition.Falsely accused of murder, Xiang Xiang's father is executed, and her mother forced into a...
The fairytale ending was just the beginning…Contains exclusive sneak peek of Claudia’s latest novel A Very Accidental Love Story.Jessie Woods absolutely believes in fairytale endings. So would you if you had a recession-proof career as a...
A powerful story of glamorous lives and ruthless ambition.In 1974 Stephen Reece-Carlton and Christina Carlton are honeymooning in Barbados. When they discover, and fall in love with, Crystal Springs House – an old colonial mansion – they decide...
Sun, sea . . . and a summer of endless possibilities.From the glossy streets of Chelsea to a tiny Greek hideaway, Faith Cotton is about to have a summer that she will never forget!Young, bored housewife, Faith Cotton, escapes her stifling...
Two novels from Nicola Barker, published together in a single volume. ‘Small Holdings’: it’s all go in a little oasis of nature, in this stirring tale of subterfuge among the shrubbery – plus ‘Reversed Forecast’, the prize-winning first novel...
Weldon on top form; Weldon tackling love, sex, ageing, death; Weldon at her wittiest best; Weldon unparalleled.Sophia is a thirty-four-year-old film editor living in Soho. Her only living relation (she thinks), her grandmother Felicity, is an...
A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author.Feted for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such enclave, Mohan, a middle-aged letter writer – the last of a dying profession – sits under a...
In The Alchemist’s Secret, ex SAS member Ben Hope is recruited to locate an ancient manuscript which could save a dying child. It turns out to be the deadliest quest of his life.Ben Hope is running for his life in The Mozart Conspiracy. Enlisted...
A female Trainspotting about a young woman who is a romantic but is also determined to overcome the depression of inner-city living in 90s Britain and carve out a life for herself – even if it does means she must become a selfish person to do...
‘Went out, got pissed. Same shit, different day.'Aberalaw, a tiny South Wales valley village where nobody ever arrives and nobody ever leaves. The new police chief has declared war on recreational drugs, resulting in an eighteen-month drought....
A beautiful debut novel about young love and finding your way.You don’t have to be missing to be lost…It’s a hot summer in the city and the nation is gripped by the disappearance of London student Fate Jones.But 25-year-old Fitz has a different...
How far would you go to make a new start? Heart-warming and romantic, Take a Look at Me Now will make you laugh, cry and cheer Nell on from start to finish.What a difference a day makes…Nell Sullivan has always been known as ‘Miss Five-Year...
A sparkling new romantic comedy from the acclaimed author of Amanda’s Wedding.Holly is a frustrated florist whose life doesn’t exactly seem to be coming up roses.Fleeing the houseshare from hell, she moves in with Josh, a sexually confused...
Welcome to the Mystic Quarter…Jillian Spectre knows what happens after you die.Because the seventeen-year-old mystic seer can see the future of her clients even after they've passed on. And that's not even her coolest power…She can be in two...
Chance brought Kirsty, Clare, Janice and Patsy together fifteen years ago. But friendship has bound them through time. Until now.Over the years, In the small town of Ballyfergus, these four women have shared tears of joy and sorrow, countless...
First published in 1978, and widely considered to be the sequel to her masterpiece ‘By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept’, this remarkable book further established Smart’s reputation as a brave and inspirational writer.A still beautiful...
The must-read new novel from Nikki Gemmell – as provocative and as deeply felt as her international bestseller The Bride Stripped Bare.Three children wake up in a basement room of a large city hotel. They have been drugged and taken from their...
A gripping story of modern-day love and old-fashioned revenge. He is not quite as clever as he thinks he is. She is smarter than she seems.Jasper thinks that he has found the perfect life. A world-class calligrapher and a serial seducer, he is...
From Sunday Times bestselling author Trisha Ashley comes a delicious treat of a collection. Chocolate Wishes and Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues.Chocolate WishesConfectioner Chloe dispenses inspirational sweet treats containing a prediction...
A fun, romantic read in which the course of true love doesn’t even come close to running smooth! For all fans of Jill Mansell.If life’s a ball then Cass needs an invite!While off to seek her fortune, Cass meets Prince Charming in a carriage – a...
She was a proper ladyAs the mighty ocean liner sank to its watery grave, two strangers bold savored their final moments by making passionate love. Matching the raging hurricane outside with her own white-hot abandon, Countess Madeleine Cavendish...
If you've ever dreamt of a new life in the country, this highly entertaining and candid account of country living might make you think again…Fresh air, rolling fields, Cath Kidston tea towels and home-baked cake – isn't that what Martha's new...
LET THE DICE DECIDE.The rules are down to you. The rules that stop you seducing your neighbour downstairs, that stop you hitting your boss, that stop you leaving your family and leaving the country. The rules that stop you living.The dice don’t...
Young single mum Grace is drowning. Her little girl Sylvie is distant, troubled and prone to violent tantrums which the child psychiatrists blame on Grace. But Grace knows there’s something more to what’s happening to Sylvie. There has to...
Abby Northrup finally has the quiet life she s dreamed of, living in Carmel at the former monastery she purchased and renovated. But The Prayer House is more than a peaceful home for Abby–unofficially it is an underground safe haven for abused...
When Caroline Meadows discovers a beautiful quilt in her mother’s attic, she sets out on a journey to discover who made it, and the meaning of the mysterious message embroidered into its lining.Many years earlier, before the first world war has...
A FEW DRINKS, SOME LAUGHS… WHAT COULD BE MORE INNOCENT?It's just a fun night out with the girls, with talk of men, sex and murder? Why not, when each of them has a lawyer who deserves to get his just deserts. And so the Hot Ladies Murder Club is...
Senior CIA analyst Mariah Bolt remembers her late father as the man who abandoned his family to run off to Europe with another woman. Ben Bolt's fans remember him somewhat differently, and revere him as a literary genius. But like it or not,...
I’m Juliet. At least, I wanted to be. So I did something stupid to make it happen.Well, stupid and wonderful. I wanted the role of Juliet more than anything. I studied hard. I gave a great reading for it (even with Bobby checking me out the...
Successful L.A. literary agent Mary Beth Conahan has come a long way from her troubled past. But when Mary Beth's ex-husband and her bestselling author are killed, she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation. And if that's not bad...