Gone Again

Gone Again

‘It’s just to say that no-one has come to pick Nathan up from school, and we were wondering if there was a problem of some kind?’ As Mark Douglas photographs a pod of whales stranded in the waters off Edinburgh’s Portobello Beach, he is called by his son’s school: his wife, Lauren, hasn’t turned up to collect their son. Calm at first, Mark collects Nathan and takes him home but as the hours slowly crawl by he increasingly starts to worry. With brilliantly controlled reveals, we learn some of the painful secrets of the couple’s shared past, not least that it isn’t the first time Lauren has disappeared. And as Mark struggles to care for his son and shield him from the truth of what’s going on, the police seem dangerously short of leads. That is, until a shocking discovery…

Gone Again

When The Rogue Returns

When The Rogue Returns

It had been a decade since Victor Cale, first cousin to the Duke of Lyons, had seen his wife. After some royal jewellery went missing from the jeweller’s shop where they worked, Isabel Mertens disappeared. When Victor gets word of a woman who fits his wife’s description, he sets out to confront her. But he discovers that nothing is as it seems-and revenge is never as sweet as true love.

When The Rogue Returns

Cold Blue Midnight

Cold Blue Midnight

In Indiana the condemned die at midnight. Killers like Peter Tapley, a twisted man who lived in his mother’s shadow and took his hatred out on trusting young women. Six years after Tapley’s execution, his ex-wife Jill is trying to live down his crimes. But somewhere in the chilly night someone won’t let her forget. Someone who still blames her for her husband’s hideous deeds. Someone who plans to make her pay in blood.

Cold Blue Midnight

The Unlikely Wife

The Unlikely Wife

A Woman In Pants! The arrival of Michael Bowen’s bride, married sight unseen by proxy, sends the rancher reeling. With her trousers, cowboy hat and rifle, she looks like a female outlawnot the genteel lady he corresponded with for months. He’s been hoodwinked into marriage with the wrong woman! Selina Farleigh Bowen loved Michael’s letters, even if she couldn’t read them herself. A friend read them to her, and wrote her repliesbut apparently that friend left things out, like Michael’s dream of a wife who was nothing like her. Selina won’t change who she is, not even for the man she loves. Yet time might show Michael the true value of his unlikely wife.

The Unlikely Wife

Aftermath

Aftermath

Alexis settles into life as Brad’s ‘contract wife’, but money and glamour aren’t enough for her: she finally decides to accept her feelings and try to win Brad over. But how?

Aftermath

The Bridal Swap

The Bridal Swap

The heiress Josh O’Malley has courted by mail is on her way to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to become his wife. His dreams are coming true, and together, they’ll create the family he’s always wanted. But when the stagecoach arrives, it’s not his intended who exits, but her sister, Kate!

The Bridal Swap

Funeral in Blue

Funeral in Blue

When her brother arrives on her doorstep, Hester Monk is shocked – as much by the unexpectedness of the visit as by the reason for it. For since her marriage to Monk, Charles and his elegant wife, Imogen, have kept their distance. But now Charles needs Hester’s help. He believes Imogen is having an affair – there can be no other explanation for her recent strange behaviour. However, before Hester is able to investigate, a tragedy occurs. In a nearby artist’s studio two women have been brutally killed. Having left the police force with extreme ill feeling between himself and his superior, the last thing Monk wants to do is face the demons of his past. But, in the course of his work, Monk is left with no choice but to visit his old adversary, Runcorn, and involve himself with the sensational murder case.

Funeral in Blue

A Rope and a Prayer

A Rope and a Prayer

The compelling and insightful account of a New York Times reporter’s abduction by the Taliban, and his wife’s struggle to free him.

A Rope and a Prayer

The Savakis Mistress

The Savakis Mistress

From society ice-queen Only hours ago she was a tempting stranger. Now Damon Savakis knows who she really is Callie Manolis, society ice-queen and duplicitous niece of his arch enemy to his unwilling mistress! Yet when Callies avaricious uncle loses the Manolis money, she is at Damons mercy and is forced to become the Savakis mistress! But Damon is unprepared for her bravery, poise and purity in a world full of greed. Shes paid her dues as his mistress he ll take her as his willing wife for free!

The Savakis Mistress

The World of the End

The World of the End

As an epilogist, Ben Mendelssohn appreciates an unexpected ending. But when that denouement is the untimely demise of his beloved wife, Ben is incapable of coping. Marian was more than his life partner; she was the fiber that held together all that he is. And Ben is willing to do anything, even enter the unknown beyond, if it means a chance to be with her again.

The World of the End

The Sweetest Revenge

The Sweetest Revenge

When Zane Cordon finds out that his wife of ten years have not only been cheating on him but that she had also gotten rid of his unborn children along the way he’s out for revenge. His mind becomes consumed with the best way of getting back at her as he sees his chances at fatherhood slipping away.

The Sweetest Revenge

Return to Paradise

Return to Paradise

Rancher Parker Robinson was having one of those weeks. His cook quit and his daughter was trying her best to get expelled from boarding school. To top it off, he found a strange woman on his ranch who didn’t know who she was! What he knew was that she was off limits. She could be another man’s wife!

Return to Paradise

The Diplomats Wife

The Diplomats Wife

Love was not a luxury Marta Nedermann could afford during the war. But with the Nazis defeated, her life takes a surprising turn when she meets Paul, a handsome American soldier. Their whirlwind romance is cut short when his troop is deployed, but promises of marriage and a rendezvous in London bolster Marta’s spirits. Then, tragically, a plane crash claims Paul’s life, and Marta is left alone to discoverto her delight and dismaythat she is pregnant.

The Diplomats Wife

The Incredible Shrinking Man

The Incredible Shrinking Man

Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants, the family cat becomes a predatory menace, and Scott must struggle to survive in a world that seems to be growing ever larger and more perilous–until he faces the ultimate limits of fear and existence.

The Incredible Shrinking Man

A Commonplace Killing

A Commonplace Killing

On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a womans body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife and mother who lived in a war-damaged terrace a few streets away.

A Commonplace Killing

Bedford Square

Bedford Square

The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home, but Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe himfor in the dead mans pocket, Pitt finds a rare snuffbox that recently graced the generals study. The superintendent must tread lightly, however, lest his investigation trigger a tragedy of immense proportions, ensnaring honorable men like flies in a web. Pitts clever wife, Charlotte, becomes his full partner in probing this masterpiece of evil, spawned by an amorality greater than they can imagine.

Bedford Square

American Wife

American Wife

On what might become one of the most significant days in her husbands presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White Houseand the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, almost in opposition to itself.

American Wife