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Beth is a new mother struggling to find her place in the world. She is exhausted, mentally and physically, but her anxieties are not simply the fears of a first-time mum. A terror burns in her, fuelled by a secret past she is lucky to have escaped. When a letter arrives, bearing only the infinity...

On a summer's day, at a remote lake, three members of the Fowler family take a dinghy out onto the water, leaving mother Sarah at the shore. Less than a minute later, she checks to see where they are. The boat is empty. Sarah's family have gone. At the Skyline Casino in London, the security team ...

On the eve of her wedding to Adam, Lily's best friend Josh unexpectedly walked out of her life, and she hasn't seen him since. Lily and Adam are blissfully happy, until he falls ill. As she cares for him in his final hours, Adam asks her to make a mysterious promise: to find Josh - and forgive th...

Gustavus Greeley is a bounty hunter, not a private detective. Nevertheless, he reluctantly accepts an assignment to travel to Elk Horn to discover whether or not Robin Warner, the town's ex-sheriff, is guilty of being a member of the gang of stagecoach robbers plaguing the area.

When a turf war breaks out on Glasgow's schemes, there's only one thing for it - the Savage Sisters and the Blood Brothers will have to fight as one. Carly Savage has lost the two people she loved the most - first her father and then Jack, local gangland boss and love of her life, was brutally at...

In a Cape Town where water is rationed and has to be collected from trucks each day, with the consequences of apartheid and the ending of it still evident, Deidre lives from day to day in squalor - largely created by herself - borrowing, persuading, cadging her way from the water trucks to the ba...

The children of the four Collins sisters - Cassandra, Lela, Suzette and Felice - have a complicated inheritance. It includes unbreakable rules for navigating society, contested stories about their grandparents' early lives, capacious musical talents, and an opal necklace of uncertain origin. In t...

When Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy left London four years ago, Europe was facing war and Billy Cavendish, the man she loved, had told her he could never marry her. Now, as London stands a shell of its former self, Kick returns to volunteer with the Red Cross, determined to do what she can for the city ...

Things change; we have to recognise that; the world will not stay still. What we must hope is that the new is better and stronger than the old. Anno Domini 1546. In a manor house in England a young woman feels the walls are closing round her, while her dying husband is obsessed by his vision of a...