Politics makes strange bedfellows To win a seat in the British Parliament, flamboyant lawyer Nicholas Redfern needed a strong air of respectability--and that meant a wife. So he offered the position to his secretary, Jenny Bartlett. For Jenny, ...
After being jilted, thirty-one-year-old Jane Rushton leaves her native England for Florence in the early years of Mussolini's reign, finding work as a governess for an aristocratic Italian family that introduces her to an exotic world of romance...
Londoner Francesca Campbell finds more than she bargained for in the remote Hebridean Island of Cullin, when she chaperons American travel writer Tod Harriman on a research trip for his latest tourist guide - and also helps him trace his family roots...
Venetia Marriott arrives in Southern Spain to stay with an uncle and aunt in their rural hideaway in Rosario, near Seville. She is recovering from the tragic death of a French boyfriend, and looking for rest and relaxation. Instead she is catapulted ...
Jane Westover is a brilliant corporate lawyer in the City a lonely, unpopular career girl determined to get to the top. But when illness forces her to accept a long rest, she sets out on a journey of self-discovery, which takes her back to her estran...
An atmospheric tale of one woman's search for her family's past - When Anna Rasini sees a painting in the window of an art gallery, her curiosity is aroused, for her mother owns a similar work, bearing the initials N. K. Early enquiries suggest that ...
A charming story of coming homeAgainst both their wills, fate throws restless Canadian Iain Macrae and the beautiful Louise Maitland together in the land of their ancestors. Before long, Iain finds himself deeply involved in the lives of the Maitland...
A womans voyage of self-discovery - Life in New York is good for beautiful journalist Claudia Matthias, whos turned her back on the grief of adolescent life in Venice. But news of the tragedy overtaking her adored father drives her home. Its time to ...
A wartime romance Summer 1939. Leonie Harcourt, nearly eighteen, finds herself pregnant by her Parisian lover, Luc Gosselin, in a London preparing for war. She is dispatched to an unknown aunt’s farm in Somerset. Luc doesn’t return after the...
Nell Fanshawe is dismayed when her husband Giles announces they are to spend their long-awaited holiday in the company of one of his clients, the demanding Frank Middleton. On arrival at the Villa Guidi in Tuscany, owned by a charming, old-fashioned ...
When Sarah Cavanagh sets off for Venice to take up a new job as governess to the aristocratic Brazzano family, she is filled with trepidation. Her employer, a former operatic diva, is reputed to be difficult and demanding; the children, Beatrice and ...
Gertrude Wyndham had come to Providence as a young bride and had somehow fused an ill-knit family together and made the beautiful old house a place of refuge. Then it seemed that Providence must be sold, for the war had devastated the fortunes of the...
When Robert Ashton returns to Gascony, that remote corner of France where he had spent several months in hiding from the Germans during World War II, it is with very mixed feelings: gratitude towards the French farming family who had saved his life -...
Fragile, quietly pretty Jane Hamilton is tougher than she looks. She has learned about men the hard way, from an absentee father. So when brash New York publisher Jerome Randall strides into her boss's office in London one day, Jane takes an instant ...
Returning home to Little Fairford, Oiver Hatton finds Jane Kingsley, who he remembers as a gauche, unhappy teenager, astonishingly transformed into a confidant young woman. Her uncle's valuable collection of antique scientific instruments attracts e...
A wonderfully original love story set in Spain . . . Physiotherapist Francesca is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Richard, the man she was going to marry, has just eloped to New York with her younger - and more beautiful - sister,...
Clio Lambert's first encounter with bestselling author Paul Costello is not an auspicious one. He seems an arrogant, demanding man, used to getting his own way. But when he offers her a job as his editorial assistant, working on a book about Italy du...
Kate Kirkby has promised Andrew Carmichael that she'll do just one more season working for Three C's travel company, before settling down and becoming his wife. She is sent out to accompany a tour to Russia and despite the company's strict guidelines...