Beryl Horth

Heather Malone has lived in Lake Henry for fourteen years. Out of the blue, she is arrested for murdering a man in California. Her partner Micah, her lawyer Cassie, and her best friend Poppy Blake, all work tirelessly to clear her name.

Klara Andersen was born in Germany in 1924. She came to Britain in 1950 and has constantly asked been about how ordinary Germans viewed Hitler and Nazism. Viewed through a young persons eye, this volume covers the years 1932 - 1948.

To artist Roderick Kennedy, it felt as if all the crises that had troubled him disappeared when he met fellow artist, Julia Fitzpatrick. But Julia's meeting with lawyer William Armstrong had dramatic consequences for all three of them.

In Spring 1944 with invasion plans imminent, Steve and Barbara fall head over heels in love and get married. Can the marriage survive the strain of war?

A delightful collection of short stories from a master storyteller.

From 1778 to the present day, the wooden farmhouse on a spit of land in Massachusetts has been home to the Hadley family. A community of steady men, wayward boys and women who make jam. Since the 1950's, when summer visitors take over the countryside, the house can barely hold all its ghosts.

Her upbringing left Jerusha Carey no stranger to change and upheaval. In Dan Appleby it seemed she had found the security and domestic happiness she craved for. Married at 18, Dan's tragic death leaves her with a farm to work. But the arrival of Joe Finch may herald a new beginning.

Cooper Winslow, star of the silver screen, has received a shock - he is broke. He is faced with selling his beloved home or renting out part of it. His two new tenants, both coping with their own problems, have teenage children who also move in and suddenly The Cottage is transformed!

When Grace Dearsden disappears in the lonely Norfolk marshes in the depths of winter, an old family friend returns to the area to try and discover what has happened. Immediately she begins to uncover clues to a tragic family secret.

In 1964 the carrozza family have high hopes for Maria, the eldest daughter, but she has other plans. Many years later a young woman comes to the village and is drawn to the simple Italian life, but discovers that nothing, especially the past is as simple as it seems.

A collection of over thirty short stories from contemporary to historical, romantic to humorous or even spooky, but all told by a gifted storyteller.

During a stay in the Italian countryside Sophie, half-English, half-Italian, embarks on a love affair with Tancredi, who is separated from his wife and family. The placid surface of polite Italian society is punctured to reveal some intense yearnings and surprising responses.

Events for the Retallick family take a dramatic turn when the onset of the Great War plunges Europe into turmoil. Book 8 of the 'Retallick' series.

When romance blossoms between Tim Wilson and Katherine Coates, Katherine's mother is horrified. Tim is only a reporter for the Torquay Times and not rich enough so she whisks Katherine away. Meanwhile a glamorous actress arrives in Torquay!

On an expedition to Western Australia a scientist, Helen Lytton, and her companions (her husband and an Aboriginal schoolteacher) unearth a mystery that links present day Australia with Rome in 1540.

This is a story of passion, genius and betrayal linking the present and the past. Nora Manin decides to leave her fractured life in London to start again in Venice and there begins to unravel the story of her ancestor, Corradino Manin, the greatest artist of glass that the famous island of Murano ever produced.

When Mr Romanis employs Mary Grant as governess to Neville and Rose, she should be happy but she continues to be haunted by awful dreams. What causes the nightmares and why does Dr Savage suspect her of murder? Only DI Jackson and sergeant Bottomley can bring her haunting to an end!

As David Keating and his wife struggle with the challenges of late parenthood, he becomes convinced that someone is watching him. As he tries to find out the truth, David discovers that the truth isn't always comfortable.

The three siblings are now leaving Cornwall to lead their own lives, but Freddy feels that she must always have 'The Keep' ready should they ever need to return.

When a hated pawnbroker is murdered in a Dublin slum his daughter, Katherine Donovan, flees to England with little Ceppi Healy. Katherine gradually realises that Liverpool is not a peaceful haven, and fears they will be in more danger than they were in Dublin.

In 1859 Eliza is left motherless and alone with an unloving father. When she is sixteen she falls in love with Jerome a tenant farmer on her father's estate. Her furious father forces her to leave Jerome, thus making the biggest mistake of her life.

A boy grows up, illegitimate, orphaned, but cherished by maiden aunts, until his maternal grandparents decide to adopt him and he faces the prospect of inheriting title, land and money.

Loved by few and feared by many, Catherine de' Medici was married to King Henri of France. After his death she became a most powerful figure at the French Court. Upholding her son's rights as civil war raged, one of her most fervent enemies was Jeanne D' Albret, Queen of Navarre, and a Hugenot supporte.

To everyone Madeline and Jack Hunter are the perfect media couple with a storybook marriage, but in private Jack's cruelty towards Maddy is destroying her. Only when she joins a Commission on Violence against Women does she learn to stand up to him.

Set in pre-war Paris, the author tells of the self-discovery of an extraordinary woman.

A vicious, squalid knife attack on fifteen-year-old Joe Kennedy by Leo Armstrong leaves both families reeling. What is it like to bring up a thug? Or to be the mother of a victim? The pain of all those affected is explored skilfully.

Sarah and Beattie Melford were sisters but never friends. When Beattie has an affair with the man Sarah loves she ruins her reputation and their lives take very different paths. Only a tragedy forces them together again.

The Orange Blossom special covers 30 years in the life of two young girls Dinah and Crystal and their families. Although some terrible things happen this book leaves you with a warm feeling at the end.

Fran Craig is impoverished, pretty, approaching forty and trying to support herself and her son as a garden designer. The going is tough until she meets the new owner of Gosfield Hall.

Olivia left her english roots far behind when she married a Greek man and settled on a small island. A tidal wave devastates the island and washes up Kitty, a mysterious stranger. Olivia offers her shelter but her happiness is threatened as Kitty starts to take over her life.

Sequel to 'All because of him' (6765). From 1948, Klara Andersen struggled to make a life in Europe. After various harrowing events she finally moved to the peace of Cornwall, where she also found peace of mind.

Journalist Kevin Burns is surprised to get a call from an old school friend. They arrange to meet, but Carl never arrives - he has been killed. What has Carl uncovered that people are prepared to kill for?

In 1918 wounded Kit Enevers befriends young Poppy Brookes but falls in love and elopes with her sister Isobel. A decade later, after receiving a troubled letter, Poppy travels to Siena to meet them again.

Beginning in 1910 this is a gripping saga about the four Purcell sisters, Frances, Julia, Gwen and Sarah. Sarah, still a child lives in a world of rural bliss, idyllic outings and romance which turns to tragedy with the coming of the Great War.  Book 1 of series.

A crime thriller featuring investigator Jane Lawless. Her best friend, Cordelia, accepts an invitation to a reunion, seeing it as an opportunity to see five of her closest college friends again after twenty years. Then one of the group is murdered, and old animosities, jealousies and resentments begin to surface.

Lily and Snow Flower both know the burden of being born female in feudal China. They find comfort in their friendship until a misunderstanding threatens to change everything when they come of age to be married.