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The wrong number was just the beginning. Will and Amanda Thorne seem to have it all: a loving marriage, a beautiful home, and a future laid out before them. Until a mysterious phone call insists on speaking to Jake Burton – a name Amanda has never heard. By the next morning, Will has vanished without a trace, plunging Amanda headfirst into a dangerous investigation, exposing a hidden world of drug dealers, ruthless criminals, and devastating lies. As she fights to uncover the truth with the aid of her detective ex-boyfriend, one question haunts her: Did she ever really know the man she loved?

Lucie and Elliot don’t trust each other, but as they’re forced together to work on a script that could launch both of their dream careers, the sparks flying between them are impossible to deny… “Sexy, funny and just PERFECT for the holidays!” Reader Review ★★★★★...

I gaze into my fiancé's eyes as I toast to our love, relieved that tomorrow we'll be married. After we say 'I do', no one from my past will ever be able to find me. Robert and I fit perfectly together – even though he may not know everything about me. But the morning of our wedding, Robert's eyes won't open. There's blood smeared across the white bed sheets. My fiancé is dead. And there's a knife in my hand… Edinburgh-based Rosie Walker is the author of gripping psychological thrillers, including The Bride's Secret, My Husband's Ex, and Secrets of a Serial Killer.

A winter tale of love rekindled in a cherished York bookstore. Megan Taylor, a young widow, finds comfort in organising book clubs and author events in her family bookstore nestled within the snow-dusted cobbled streets of York. When prize-winning author Xander Stone literally bumps into her and trashes her taste in books, Megan can sense that her self-imposed hibernation from romance might be at an end. Their view on literature clash, leading to animated debates that breathe a new passion into her life, but will it be enough to thaw their frozen hearts.

Yorkshire Dales, Summer 1997. Vicky Mott slips out the door of her remote cottage, and into the pale dawn light. She scrawls a note for her friends. Gone to see the sunrise. V xxx That’s the last anyone ever hears from twenty-year-old music lover Vicky. Another victim of the Fellside Strangler?...

A warm and heartfelt story ❤️ with all the northern Yorkshire charm! Perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley, Jo Bartlett and Jenny Colgan. ✨ Every book in the Beddingfield series can be read as a standalone. 🏠 Jess Allen has always played it safe. 🏠 She married her high school sweetheart...

Bestseller Julie Houston’s warm, uplifting and funny novel about forbidden love, friendship and family is perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Fiona Gibson and Cathy Kelly. Every book in the Beddingfield series can be read as a standalone. The Yorkshire village of Beddingfield is home to the...

The Sunday Times number one bestselling debut novel ‘Absolutely outrageous. A total snigger-fest.’ SINDHU VEE 'Unputdownable. Thoroughly enjoyable and twisted.' KATERINA DIAMOND Welcome to a hen do where revenge is served colder than a frozen margarita… Cara Carmichael’s bestie is...

Ettie is trying to figure out her future. Dominic’s just trying to forget his past. But with the help of some unlikely friends, young and old, a secret lake hidden in the grounds of a beautiful estate and a scruffy dog, a new community is formed–right when they all need each other the most.

'Simply superb.' NetGalley Reviewer, ★★★★★ 'Excellent from beginning to end.' NetGalley Reviewer, ★★★★★ 'A bone-chilling thriller.' NetGalley Reviewer, ★★★★★ ‘WARNING: do not start reading this if you have things to do. It’s a page-turner you won’t be able to...

Winter, 1939. As December draws nearer and with her family facing their first Christmas without Bert, Nancy is desperately trying to keep up her children’s spirits and her own. Young Patty should be excited to be spending her first festive season with sweetheart Archie, but why does she worry he’s keeping something from her? Betty is missing her beloved William as he continues his RAF training, but she’s determined not to sit around wallowing.

Housewife Nancy never dreamed that she’d end up in Vickers steelworks factory, but when husband Bert is called up to serve, she needs to put food on the table for her two young children. Betty’s sweetheart, William, has joined the RAF Reserves, so she can’t sit around and do nothing - even if it means giving up her ambitions to study law at night school. Young Patty is relishing the excitement the war brings. But this shop-girl is going to have to grow up quickly, especially now she’s undertaking such back-breaking and dangerous work in the factory.

‘Lovely heartwarming story! I smiled a lot and laughed… Loved every minute of it!… If you are looking for a light read about friends and romance and with a cute overexcited dog look no further!’ NetGalley reviewer,⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Winner of the Jane Wenham-Jones Award for Romantic Comedy...

Sue Young has never asked for much apart from a quiet life. She’s always been happy with her call centre job and dinner on the table at six o'clock. That was until a tragedy tore her tranquility into little shreds. With her life in tatters, Sue is persuaded to join a charity cycle ride led by morning TV’s Kath Fuller, who is having a crisis of her own, and Sue’s self-appointed support crew are struggling with their own issues. 

'An emotional rollercoaster. I loved it.' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The exciting new novel from the bestselling author of My Sister’s Lies. Rose has always been close to her father. Her mother died soon after she was born, so it’s been just the two of them for as long as she can remember...

‘Brilliant . . . entertaining.’ ANN CLEEVES Summer can be murder out on the sun-scorched Yorkshire Fells. When the body of eighteen-year-old Tyler Prasad is found up on lonely Skye Moss, Detectives Leo Donovan and Shan Young are called in to investigate. Tyler lies dead in a bone-dry ditch...

With their city under fire, can they find hope in each other? 'Rich, evocative and spellbinding' KATE THOMPSON 'A heartwarming tale of courage, friendship and hope' MILLY JOHNSON *** In December 1940, the Blitz has reached Sheffield, but Steel Girl Hattie is more concerned about the war brewing...

Read the next book in the heart-warming WW2 historical romance saga series, The Steel Girls In their darkest days, they’ll find the courage to carry on… Summer 1940 The war is raging on but the Steel Girls are fighting their own battles closer to home. After patching things up with Archie...

⭐ The unputdownable new thriller from Mandy Byatt that will leave you reeling after the final twist… ⭐ She knows him better than anyone. She doesn’t know him at all… Lottie and Nick once had a dream marriage, but a series of failed IVF attempts has left Lottie feeling insecure, and her...

Timeless romance from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction set in post-war Liverpool continues to move readers. Peggy Delaney was a Lancashire girl born and bred, beginning...