Lesley Pearse

Fifteen year old Belle, snatched from the streets and sold into prostitution, is at the mercy of desperate men who crave her beauty and will do anything to keep her. Her dreams of home, family and freedom appear futile. Are Belle's courage and spirit strong enough to help her escape? And what will await her at the end of the long, dangerous journey home?  Book 1 of series.

Eve should never have married Don Hathaway. Yes, he gave her two beautiful children - Olly and Tabitha - but he is a bully. Worse than that, he hurts her. But, after one drunken rage too many, she has the courage to leave him. Eve is warned that it's a difficult path, yet she needs to give her children hope for the future.

Don, however, is bitter. And getting away entirely from him proves impossible. Until the day, Eve tries to teach him a lesson - and it all goes horribly wrong. Eve loves her children but now she carries a terrible burden that she dares not share. Has she betrayed her and her children's futures?

What happens when the person closest to you has led a life of deception?

After the funeral of her mother, Sally, Alice Kent is approached by a man named Angus Tweedy. He claims to be her father and tells her that he served time in prison for marrying Sally bigamously.

What does he hope to gain telling her this now, thirty years on? How can her adored dad Ralph not be her true father? And why did her mother betray her so badly?

She had accepted Sally's many faults, and her reluctance to never speak of the past. But faced with this staggering deception, Alice knows she must uncover the whole truth about her mother.

Whatever the cost.

Alice's journey into her mother's past is one of incredulity as she discovers a woman shaped by a truly traumatic childhood . . .

London, 1941. When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn't be more different. Elizbeth is beautiful and charming, about to set off on a dazzling adventure to Ireland where she's inherited a grand house. Mary, shy and meek, has nothing to look forward to but the dreary life of a maid in Hampstead.

But when an air raid forces them to take shelter underground Mary's life is suddenly changed forever. After waking up in hospital, injured but alive, the nurse mistakes her for Elizabeth and hands over her suitcase with Elizabeth's money and tickets to Ireland inside.

This is Mary's chance to escape the hardship of her life and start afresh.

Will she take it and what could go wrong?

Somerset 1936 and baby Hope is the outcome of her mother’s adultery. She is secretly taken in by a loving warm family in a nearby village. She becomes a nurse which takes her to the battlefields of the Crimea. Unaware of her true identity Hope returns to England to face the legacy of her birth.

Twenty-three year old Katy Speed is fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous neighbour on the avenue, owning a fashionable dress shop in Bexhill-on-Sea. But who is the woman who arrives in the black car most Saturdays while Gloria is at work? Sometimes she brings women to the house, other times they have children.

Hilda, Katy's mother, disapproves of Gloria. She wonders if these mysterious visitors have just been released from prison. Is Gloria secretly bringing criminals, or worse, into the heart of the community?

Then one night, the house burns down. In the wreckage, the bodies of Gloria and her daughter are found. Katy is sure the unexplained visitors must be responsible until her father is arrested and charged with murder.

In a Shepherd's Bush bedsit, Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. The closest she's come is selling advertising in the local paper. Until the fateful day she stumbles on a truly shocking scoop.

Round the corner from her home, she discovers the body of a murder victim, dumped among the rubbish. When the police and reporters descend, Amelia is horrified at the assumptions made and lies soon to be spread about this poor young woman. 

Determined to protect the victim from these smears and help her grieving family, she convinces her paper's editor to allow her to take up her pen and tell the true story. But when another body is found and the police investigation stalls, Amelia discovers that she may be the only one with any chance of learning the truth and stopping more killings…

Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifetime. She leaves behind London's slums and enters the darkest corners of New York. From there she travels across the plains to the Wild West, where San Francisco is in the grip of the gold rush.

Streetwise and strong-willed, Matilda forges a new life for herself and Tabitha among pioneers like Captain James Russell - a man to whom she is deeply attracted. Yet a civil war will soon rip apart this new nation.

Can Matilda and those she loves brave separation and carry on, never looking back?

London, 1914. Belle Reilly finally has the life she's dreamed of thanks to devoted husband, Jimmy and the hat shop she's wanted to own since she was a child. As the storm clouds of World War One begin to gather, Belle's already turbulent life is to change in ways she never imagined possible.  Book 2 of series.

When Alice Talbot is twelve her sister is killed in a road accident, and their devastated mother, Rose, starts to abuse her. Alice runs away to trace her grandmother. At first Honour wants nothing to do with her but gradually they forge a bond and Alice starts to forget her unhappy past. But then war breaks out and Rose decides to rear her ugly head again.

When beautician, Dale, reads an article in a Brighton newspaper about a beautiful girl found half-drowned and suffering from amnesia on a beach, she suspects it may be her one-time friend Lotte Wainwright. In the ensuing weeks the two girls try to unravel a web of secrets and lies and Lotte attempts to make sense of her past. X rated, explicit sexual content.

1938: Headstrong eighteen-year-old Mari Carrera leaves rural New Zealand aboard the SS Rimutaka, bound for London, seduced by the temptations of the glittering West End, until war comes and snatches it all away. As the Blitz rains death on London, Mari's life is blown apart. And soon this born survivor must risk everything - putting her life on the line for others.  Book 3 of series.

Welcome to Willow Close, where everyone is a suspect . . . On the day Nina and Conrad Best move into their new home in picture-perfect Willow Close a body is discovered. Hurrying inside with their belongings, they see horrified neighbours gather by the police cordon - one of the residents has been attacked and brutally killed in the woods. Believing someone must have seen the murderer, the police interview all the residents of the Close. They soon find out that each neighbour harbours their own secrets. The residents of Willow Close are far from what they initially seem and strange, even dark, things happen behind their closed doors. Nina and Conrad had thought they'd found their dream neighbourhood. But have they moved into a nightmare?

Susan is the woman who walked in a doctor's surgery one day and committed murder.

Beth is the lawyer assigned to defend Susan. But her client is uncooperative.

Until both women realise that twenty-nine years earlier, they were childhood friends...

While the evidence mounts up, their friendship starts to regrow.

But for one of them, there can be no happy ending...

Coronation Day, 1953. In a Somerset village, Molly Heywood makes a shocking discovery: She finds her friend Cassie dead and her six-year-old daughter Petal missing. Molly seeks help from George, the village policeman, but no one can find Petal. The only clue is a letter from London, where Cassie once lived. Molly resolves to go to London, but is she risking her life?