A FAMILY TRAGEDYAmy’s always felt like something’s been missing in her life. When a tragedy forces the family she works for as a nanny to retreat to a small lakeside cottage, she realises she cannot leave them now.A SISTER’S SECRETBut Amy finds something unsettling about the cottage by the lake. This is where the children’s… Read More »
What if you were trapped between two cultures?Life is tough in 1870s Wyoming. But it’s tougher still when you’re a girl who looks Chinese but speaks like an American.Orphaned as a baby and taken in by an American family, Charity Walker knows this only too well. The mounting tensions between the new Chinese immigrants and… Read More »
The most wonderful time of the year? Katie Warham has just one wish this year…to have the best Christmas ever! If only she could lock herself away in a cloud of flour and sugar at her cosy little tearoom, Crumbtious Cakes, instead of spending the festive season trapped with her judgemental mother, crazy Aunt Gina and loved-up… Read More »
Sometimes the truth hurts … When journalist Tess Johnson takes a job at Helix pharmaceuticals, she has a very specific motive. Tess has reason to believe the company are knowingly producing a potentially harmful drug and, if her suspicions are confirmed, she will stop at nothing to make sure the truth comes out. Jim Knight is the… Read More »
It’s 1969 and Mary Schormann is living quietly in Wales with her ex-POW husband, Peter, and her teenage twins, Richard and Victoria. Her niece, Linda Booth, is a nurse – following in Mary’s footsteps – and works in the maternity ward of her local hospital in Lancashire. At the end of a long night shift, a bullying… Read More »
After a long-buried secret tears her family apart, Jess Hayden moves to the South Devon village of Lynbrook to live with her uncle. Rufus owns the village pub, The Black Bull, and having visited before, Jess knows the villagers well…especially one of them. Talún Hansen has a reputation, making him the kind of man no decent… Read More »
I’m so delighted today to feature Katey Lovell, author of the Meet Cute series. I don’t think Katey and I have ever met (mmm – maybe we did once, ages ago?) , but we’ve known each other on-line for many years as blogging friends – she has an excellent book blog at Books With Bunny.… Read More »
We’re fast approaching that time of year when I need to sit in a darkened room, sucking my pencil, working out which books are actually going to make it onto my final Book of the Year list. I’ve enthused about so many books this year that it’s going to be incredibly difficult, but one book… Read More »
Bampton, Derbyshire, January 1978. Two girls go missing: Rachel Jones returns, Sophie Jenkins is never found. Thirty years later: Sophie Jenkins’s mother commits suicide.Rachel Jones has tried to put the past behind her and move on with her life. But news of the suicide re-opens old wounds and Rachel realises that the only way she… Read More »
A shaky upbringing has left Rosie Stevens craving safety and security. She thinks she knows exactly what she needs to make her life complete – the stable job and perfect house-sit she’s just found in Magnolia Creek. The only thing she wants now is for her long-term boyfriend, Adam, to leave his overseas job and… Read More »
When a song by the mad composer, Carlo Gesualdo, is discovered in Exeter Museum, trouble descends on the group asked to sing it. Lisa is full of enthusiasm at first, but she soon becomes convinced the song is cursed. What is the mystery behind the discordant harmonies? Will she solve the song’s secret before her… Read More »
YOU FELL IN love with Blue Ryder and Lizzie Barber in Seaside Summers, now follow their journey to find true love in SEIZED BY LOVE, the first book in the Ryder series. Coming soon.Lizzie Barber runs a successful flower shop by day and secretly hosts the Naked Baker webcast at night to help pay for… Read More »
Four people hide secrets from the world and from themselves. Dory is disillusioned by men and relationships, having seen the damage sex can do. Fran deals with her mid-life crisis by pursuing an on-line flirtation which turns threatening. Dominic is a lost boy, trapped in a life heading for self-destruction. Stefan feels he is a… Read More »
I’m delighted today – as the second anniversary of the devastating impact of Typhoon Haiyan on the Philippines approaches – to welcome Claire Morley, author of Tindog Tacloban, to Being Anne for the first stop on her mini blog tour. Over to you Claire… Huge thanks to Being Anne for so kindly giving me the opportunity… Read More »
Travel Together Tour Manager Eve Mitchell is planning a quiet Christmas at home to rest and relax before a special New Year. But she soon, very unexpectedly, finds herself in the depths of the Essex countryside looking after a singles’ group which contains some old, familiar faces and some pleasant – and not so pleasant… Read More »