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Pages - Book 3, by EA Harwik - A modern family saga. ------ ISBN: 9780980677652Pages - Book 3 is the story of two the younger Page siblings, Peta and Jamie. Unlike their older brother David. Peta and Jamie are the product of a privileged boarding school education.The Pages trilogy will question and define the boundaries of normal in modern society. Where secrets challenge the fabric of friendship and family. --------- Book 1 - ISBN: 9780980677621...
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Pre-order the BRAND NEW instalment in the bestselling Harpers Emporium series!
London Spring 1920
Harpers is beginning to flourish once more after the end of the war but for Sally Harper the problems continue.
Husband Ben is moody, sometimes distant, and she feels he is shutting her out at home and at work, but why?
It takes a terrible tragedy to make them realise their love and respect is still true.
The ladies and girls who work at Harpers...
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When the Great Depression hits Liverpool hard, can Weaver Street's close knit community keep each other safe?
As Liverpool and its residents begin to heal from the wounds and memories of World War I, life on Weaver Street in 1924 is blessedly peaceful.
At number eleven, widow Kitty Conlon is dreaming about her upcoming wedding to John, while at number nine her best friend Maggie is cursing her bad luck as she juggles the demands of her cantankerous...
4) Show Boat
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"Here, I thought, was one of the most melodramatic and gorgeous bits of Americana that had ever come my way. It was not only the theater - it was the theater plus the glamour of the wandering drifting life, the drama of the river towns, the mystery and terror of the Mississippi itself... I spent a year hunting down every available scrap of show-boat material; reading, interviewing, taking notes and making outlines."
Inspired by an offhand comment...
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Back in the deep recesses before the time of natural law, it was established the world needed a disinterested panel to oversee the business of mankind...High above the land was a suspended mist that housed a board of wizards, priests, and seers. Under the direction of the Ancient Ones, they were directed to guide the course of man's affairs.
When corruption was discovered, they selected from the earth a pair of innocents. Upon the intercession of...
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A saga of power, greed, and illicit love set in the Gilded Age of upstate New York. Jerome Lindsey and his foster brother, Alfred, couldn't be more different. The son of a wealthy banker in upstate New York, Jerome leaves home for a life of extravagance and adventure, seducing countless women along the way. Meanwhile, Alfred becomes an executive at the family bank and his adoptive father's heir apparent. After his wife dies, Alfred shows little interest...
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Pre-order the brand-new instalment in Fenella J. Miller's bestselling Goodwill House series!
January 1941
As the residents of Goodwill House feel the hard bite of winter, land girl Charlie Somiton is still glad of the warm friendships she has made there. Not just her fellow land girls, Daphne and Sal, but also dashing local G.P. Dr James Willoughby who looked after Charlie when she was injured at work.
Charlie likes Dr Willoughby, but she fears...
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From an author praised for her "genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships," a historical saga about an immigrant Irish family in Yorkshire (Irish Independent).
Summer, 1867: a sudden change in fortune promises to save the Feeneys from their life of poverty. But what will save the Feeney family from itself?
Patrick and Thomasin Feeney and their children, Erin, Richard and Sonny, each have different dreams-and as these dreams grow...
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This book is a really unique look at the greatest war. Find out who the son of Odin was. Discover why the God of heaven favored the people is the land of the golden eagle. Find out where the land of the dragon was, and who the king of the Samurai was. Discover who the great Author was and how he defeated this evil empire. Learn what the amazing weapon was that the devastated their land with! Read the story poem battle epic to discover how ancient...
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Mabel and her friends are police recruits in Leicester, England, where they are currently receiving their training in this particular area of work. But, on one occasion while on patrol, Mabel happens to come across a stranger, who, after performing introductions, makes one such proposition to her, which she is unable to resist, irrespective of her current commitments.When she begins the new job, she discovers that she is starting to love her new charge....
11) Scraps
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Jake Conner has spent the last three years fighting a war he never really believed in. As he returns to his Arkansas home -- his best friend in a makeshift coffin -- he wants nothing more than a life removed from the senselessness of war. Fruitful days on his farm with his sons Steven and Glen. Peaceful nights with his wife Sue beneath the quilt she made for him in the hope he would indeed one day return.
But life is neither its happiest moments...
12) Porthellis
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A new wife's life is in danger when a spurned romantic rival returns in this saga set in a small Cornish village on the brink of the second world war.
For Hannah, life has been wonderful over the last few months. She is blissfully happy in her marriage to Matt Penney, and now becoming mother to her young son has given her complete fulfillment. But Hannah's peace is not to last for long.
Convicted and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit,...
13) Turn of the Tide
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Three women in a Scottish fishing village look toward the future after a devastating tragedy in this life-affirming novel inspired by historical events.
After a catastrophic storm tore through the village of Eyemouth in 1881, the villagers have slowly started to move on. Inconsolable at the loss of her husband, Rosabelle Maltman has left Scotland to start a new life, leaving her son behind. Meanwhile her sister-in-law, Jessie, is finding ways to...
14) Losing Myself
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An uplifting page-turner about love, loss and hope Since Kat made her decision, everything around her seems to be falling apart. Not only is she dealing with family's secrets, lies and deceit but the salon, which is opening around the corner, threatens her livelihood. To make matters worse her relationship with Max is on the rocks. Although her relationships with Max's mother, her step-mother and her sister have grown stronger, are they strong enough?...
15) Nothing Ventured
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A new start means a new chance at love…
Strong-willed Isla Scott leaves her job as a hospital nurse in Edinburgh to return to her hometown of Edgemuir, where her brother Boyd still lives. Hoping to reconnect with him after years apart, she divides her time between family and her new position at Dr. Lorne's fashionable hydro, a nearby spa that advertises cures through baths and steam.
Her important job and her renewed closeness with Boyd convince...
16) Love Carries On
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The war threatens all she holds dear...
Jessica Raeburn lives with her family in a small flat in Edinburgh and works as a department store cashier. She finds herself bored, distracted and dreaming of a more exciting life. One filled with glamour and glitz and excitement. One like she sees in the movies. So when she is hired to work in the box office at the Princes Street cinema, she is thrilled – to be so close to the films and stars she loves...
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"I couldn't cook but I could sew. It would have been better the other way around." Trapped in Kansas at the turn of the twentieth century, Nell Plat is seventeen, unhappily married, and the mother of two baby girls. No reality could be further from her secret dreams of glamour and excitement, dreams that will tempt her to do the unthinkable and run away to the glittering wonderland of Los Angeles and the burgeoning motion picture industry. Lucky for...
18) Spanish Crossing
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Conflict destroys lives. But, love will survive. Spanish Crossings is an epic tale of love, politics and conflict, with the yearning but elusive possibility of redemption. When a woman's life is, cast in shadow by her connection to the Spanish Civil War in 1937, can she ever learn to love again? Lorna meets and falls in love with Harry, a member of the International Brigade. But, Harry is tragically killed in the fighting and Lorna fears she might...
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A chance meeting will change her life in ways she never could have imagined in this emotional saga set during World War II from the author of Love or Duty.
As the Second World War continues to bring heartache to those left behind in Liverpool, Megan Lloyd is determined to do her bit for the war effort. She is appalled by the plight of young women left pregnant and destitute following ill-fated love affairs with passing sailors or American GIs,...
20) Stolen Moments
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In this historical romance, a young nanny falls the wealthy heir to a mining empire and most chose between her desire to help the workers and her heart.
Eighteen-year-old domestic servant Kate Stacey is passionately in love with David Owen, the brother of Lady Helen Sherwood. They both know their romance would be a scandal but seeing a chance for them to spend more time together, David recommends Kate as nanny to his young nieces at Bramwood...
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