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.

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…

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?

As children, Beth Powell and Susan Wright spent every August together in Stratford-upon-Avon. Both the products of unhappy families, they were happy together until fate intervened and separated them. Twenty-nine years later they meet again when Susan, a down and out, is on trial for murder and Beth is the lawyer allocated to defend her.

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?