Kim Hicks

It's 1921 and eighteen-year-old orphan Daisy May has to work hard as a dancer in a nightclub to support her little sister Mary-Jane, who is six. One night a fire starts and Mary-Jane is alone in the house. The night's events lead to the sisters being split up and Daisy May fears that she will never see Mary-Jane again.

Called in to investigate the disappearance of a rich man's 18-year-old daughter, Maisie discovers there are many reasons why the young woman might have left home. Maisie feels the daughter is safe, but is suddenly confronted by a murder scene.

New arrivals at Prior’s Ford, Genevieve and Meredith Whitelaw try to shake things up and the McNair family struggle to make ends meet.

Bookshop owner Diana is newly single. Her favourite piece of music, The Brahms Requiem, now stirs painful memories of her ex-life. She determines to do something outrageous to supplant these old memories, thus 'getting back Brahms'.

Lauren has always known she was adopted but when a little research turns up the possibility that she was snatched from an American family as a baby, suddenly Lauren's life seems like a sham. How can she find her biological parents? And are her adoptive parents really responsible for kidnapping her? 

Juliet's mother dies leaving letters and photographs showing that Juliet's real father was an American bomber pilot. Now, forty years later, she sets out to trace him.

Delphine Venner is an old woman now, but she remembers everything. She remembers what the terrifying creatures from another world took from her all those years ago. And in that other world, Avalonia, someone waits for Delphine. Hagar, a centuries-old assassin, is planning one final death - the death that will cost her everything. The death which requires Delphine.

While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her mother, Eddress, is struggling for courage. Though bound by an indestructible love, their journey through a world that is darkening with tragedy is fraught with the kind of misunderstandings that bring as much laughter as pain, and as many dreams as nightmares. How does a child cope when faced with a wall of adult secrets? What does a mother do when her biggest fear starts to become a reality?

Set in a world where a fridge is a luxury, cars have starting handles, and where bingo and coupons bring in the little extras, Just One More Day is a deeply moving true-life account, told by mother and daughter, of how the spectre of death moved into their family, and how hard they tried to pretend it wasn't there.

When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look secure. But Lady Audley's past is shrouded in mystery, and Sir Michael's nephew, Robert, has vague forebodings. When Robert's friend George Talboys disappears, he is determined to find him and to unearth the truth. His quest reveals a tangled story of lies and deception, crime and intrigue, which turn the conventional picture of Victorian womanhood on its head. Can Robert's darkest suspicions really be true?

When the body of a young German student is discovered at a university in Reykjavik with gruesome injuries, the victim’s family ask attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir and her assistant to investigate. It soon emerges that the victim was obsessed with Iceland’s history of torture and witch hunts and that this has a bearing on his death. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Eileen and Ronald Wells live a happy settled life with their three daughters in Rotherhithe. As war looms, one girl joins the Air Force, another the Land Army whilst the youngest starts war work in a factory. With her family scattered, Eileen throws herself into the community, always on hand to help friends and neighbours.

Molly Bonner is an archaeologist who has come to discover the truth behind the village of Lufferton Boney's greatest and most famous resident, the giant (and slightly obscene) Gnome, a fertility symbol etched into the face of Pound Hill. In the process, she shakes up the lives and loves of the colourful characters he looks down upon. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

When Alexandra Stamford goes to stay with her cousins at Knighton Hall she meets their handsome stable lad, Tom O'Brien. But are they really destined to be together?

Lisa, a dancer, has done a bunk from Mickey Allerton's club. Fran Varady doesn't want to help Mickey as he searches for Lisa, but as he is holding her dog hostage she has no choice. Things get extremely complicated when Fran discover's a body.  Book 6 of series.

Born into terrible poverty, Milly Ash has always wanted to better herself. She gets her chance when she lands a position as a lady's companion. But years later a tragic accident causes Milly to lose her job and, along with it, the life she so loved.

Set in a Devon copper port, where Isaac Westbrook is the respected Harbour Master. Isaac's daughter wishes to marry Tom Mason, but Isaac fears that Tom will never be financially secure and forces the couple to wait. Then tragedy strikes and Rebecca, along with the other inhabitants of the town, faces a devastating era of change.

The other woman is not a mistress, but Linda, Dan's mother. She took over organising Dan and Ellie's wedding, but that was a rehearsal - now that Ellie is pregnant she wants to take over completely. How can Ellie and Dan get their lives back?

One child miraculously escaped the flames of 1940's Coventry. Patrick Parker was sent to London, and appeared to have a great future ahead of him as an architect. But things don't go as smoothly as he would wish, especially after he dumps Audrey, who adores him, for a woman who could advance his career! Contains some offensive language and explicit sex.

Joan's answer to life after divorce from Jack is simple - happy seclusion. But when her neighbours introduce her to the desirable actor Finbar Flynn, the walls of her citadel begin to crack.

There is consternation among the villagers of pretty Scottish borders town, Priors Ford, when a firm is interested in re-opening an old sandstone quarry. It'll be disruptive, noisy and dusty, despite bringing in some new jobs so publican Glen organises a protest group.

In the summer of AD79, Flavia Gemina and her friends sail to Pompeii to stay with her uncle. While they search for hidden treasure, Mount Vesuvius erupts and the children have to flee for their lives.

Set in the port of Ostia in the year 79AD. Flavia and her friends get involved in the mystery of two dogs that are killed and their heads taken away.

In June 1940, Louis Duval flees from France after its fall to the Nazis. He arrives in Dartmouth and lodges in a boarding house run by Barbara, a young widow. An injured naval officer is also staying there, and they become rivals for Barbara's love.

Sunny is engaged to wealthy Gray after meeting him when his Bentley breaks down outside her parents' country home. Sunny moves into her friend Arietta’s lodgings in London and meets and falls in love with Hart. Then Arietta finds out a secret about Gray…

Beth and Carol each have their own plans as to how Christmas is going to go. But even the best laid plans have a habit of unravelling, so when these two Christmases collide, it looks like there's going to be anything but goodwill toward men.

When Marianne Flowers is invited to a party, she has no idea that it will change her life for ever. Here she meets Charles and experiences her first romance. Marianne soon realises that there is a whole world out there before her. But how will this new, independently minded, Marianne find her place in this brand new world? X rated, explicit sexual content.