The emotive final instalment of the Hillsbridge Sagas, perfect for fans of Ellie Dean and Rosie Clarke Jenny Simmons has always thought of herself as the ugly duckling of her family, so when she blossoms into a swan, she’s not quite sure what to do with it. When amateur boxer Bryn Thompson walks into her life, it seems happiness really is possible. But then a well-kept family secret rears its ugly head, a secret that could put her very life in danger... Helen Hall, a newly qualified doctor, may just be able to help her, but will she risk the job she loves in order to do it? A Family Affair, a story life, love and hope will appeal to fans of Maggie Hope and Katy Flynn. ‘Sensitive and exceptionally polished’ Manchester Evening News The Hillsbridge Sagas The Black Mountains The Emerald Valley The Hills and the Valley A Family Affair
When a new governess learns that all is not what it seems she must uncover secrets hiding beneath the surface... Charity Palfrey is an orphan – with no family of her own, no heritage and no past. Accepting a job as governess at Morwennan House is a fresh start for her, but from the moment Charity arrives she knows there is something sinister about her appointment. Charity finds romance with the handsome and charming Tom Stanton, but she soon starts to question his motivations. Does Tom return her love or is he simply using her for his own ends? And are there darker secrets lurking beneath the surface at Morwennan House? A page-turning Cornish saga, perfect for fans of Linda Finlay and Gloria Cook.
When Ros Newman's car is found abandoned at her local West Country railway station, the police are not unduly concerned. They believe Ros has merely escaped the pressures of a glamorous but demanding job at the fashion firm Vandina, and the stress of coping with an obsessively jealous ex-husband. But the current man in Ros's life, Mike Thompson, suspects there is a more sinister explanation, and so does her sister Maggie. She flies home from Corfu, leaving troubles of her own behind, to help Mike in his desperate search. Mike and Maggie's investigations uncover a story of passion and ambition spanning thirty years, and a web of deception and desire which takes them from Corfu to a North Sea oil rig, and from Vermont, New England to South America. They soon realise, to their horror, it is not only Ros's life which is in danger. . .
A collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine the mental representations that people hold of their social world and the way that social information is processed, stored and retrieved. The readings have been selected to provide a representative sampling of exciting research and theory on social cognition that is both comprehensive and current and cross-cuts the levels of analysis from intrapersonal to intergroup.
When an accident leaves Davina with no memory of her past she resolves to start over. But will that change when she learns a shocking truth? A tragic coaching accident leaves nineteen-year-old Davina Grimes without a family, with no memory of her past life and no prospects. Without means to support herself she feels compelled to accept the proposal of wealthy businessman John Paterson, even though she finds him abhorrent. Davina reluctantly settles into her new life, but as recollections of her youth begin to emerge she finds that links to her past are rekindling dangerous emotions... A stirring 18th-Century romance, perfect for fans of Linda Finlay and Gloria Cook.
They could not have been more different, yet war was to forge a link between them which would never be broken . . .Alys Peterson: beautiful, pampered and rich, she wanted for nothing - except understanding . . . and love. Tragedy had touched her life, but her parents had been too concerned with their standing in society to care.Tara Kelly: gritty and talented, raised in the slums of Sydney - she had been mistress to a gangland boss while still in her middle teens. But she had taken a bitter revenge on her lover and was now in fear of her life.Sweeping across the continent of Australia during World War II, Women and War is a compulsive story of love and hate, bravery and fear, passion and quiet, and deadly determination.
When a shocking murder occurs it reveals a complex web of lies stretching from Cornwall to Revolutionary France. Flora is left distraught after the shocking murder of her father, the landlord of Tucker’s Grave Inn. However, Flora senses her distant cousins, Louis and Gavin Fletcher, know more about her father’s death than they are letting on. As Flora tries to learn the truth she quickly finds herself drawn into a complex tale that spans all the way across the Channel to the terrifying events in Revolutionary France... An enthralling and deeply moving saga for fans of Linda Finlay and Gloria Cook.
Can Ella learn the truth about the fate of her mother and brother? One dark and stormy night, a terrified young mother seeks refuge at the home of her former nanny. Louise Polmar begs her former nanny to care for her baby then she flees. Louise never returns and until she is eighteen her child, Ella grows up unaware that she is one of the Polmars of Porthminster Hall. Ella tries to uncover the truth about the fate of her mother, but there are dark secrets at Porthminster Hall and as Ella delves into the mysteries of the past she finds herself in mortal danger. The same mortal danger her mother fled from more than twenty years ago... A captivating novel full of family secrets, perfect for fans of Linda Finlay and Gloria Cook.
Top sixties model Paula Varna died, with her husband Hugo's business partner Greg Martin, in a yachting accident twenty years ago. Or did she? When Greg is discovered living a new life in Australia, the Varna family is devastated by old wounds and buried memories. Fashion designer Hugo, reliving the horror of a double betrayal; Sally, Paula's sister and now his wife, terrified by the threat to the life she has made for herself; Sally's son Mark, facing exposure of his own unhappy secret. And Harriet, Paula's daughter, torn between family loyalty, her need to know the truth about the mother she lost when she was four, and her ambivalent response to insurance investigator Tom O'Neill . . .
The spell-binding story of a girl catapulted by fate into maturity - and of a close-knit mining community caught up in the horror and hardship of war. At seventeen it seems that Barbara, youngest of the Hall clan, has the world at her feet. She is pretty, she is mischievous, and she has grown up wanting for nothing. But the carefree idyll is about to end with the suddenness of a summer storm. For a shadow of which she knows nothing hangs over her charmed life; a long dark shadow from the past threatening her happiness and denying her the one man she truly loves. And in the world outside the Hillsbridge valley the clouds of war are gathering . . .
1926 . . . Amy Hall was wild, wilful and stubborn - struggling to make a success of the haulage business her dead husband Llew had created - and to come to terms with the shocking secret of his past. Ralph Porter was handsome, successful and ruthless - "the richest man in Hillsbridge". He was waiting, it seemed, for Amy to make one slip that would enable him to absorb her struggling business into his own empire. Sometimes it seemed to Amy she was fighting the whole world. But then Amy was a fighter. She always had been . . . Beneath the Black Mountains in the small Somerset mining town of Hillsbridge, Amy Hall battles to find her very own Emerald Valley.
Did Sophia Langlois - passionate, wealthy, respected - really shoot her eldest son that November night in 1972? Or was she protecting someone else when she claimed she did? Twenty years later her granddaughter Juliet is determined to learn the truth.But she is not the only one interested in the Langlois case. Dan Deffains, son of Sophia's late attorney, and an investigative reporter by profession, has scented a story. His path and Juliet's cross as they follow the tangled leads and uncover a story of love and passion, loyalty and betrayal which has its roots in beleaguered wartime Jersey, when the island was occupied by the Nazis. But is the truth more devastating than the lie? Would it have been better for all concerned if Juliet - and Dan - had left the past where it belonged . . .
A family of nine works to get by as the Great War looms over their English coal-mining town in this “sensitive and exceptionally polished” novel (Manchester Evening News). The Hall family lives under the brooding shadow of the Black Mountains, in the mining town of Hillsbridge. Charlotte, James, and their seven children are independent spirits, but united by strong family bonds. Living in a coal mining community is never easy, and when the shadow of impending war threatens, they must pull together to face the hardship to come. Can this close-knit family overcome whatever tragedy life throws at them? And is there hope for a life beyond this valley one day? The Black Mountains is the first novel in Janet Tanner’s moving saga of love, happiness, and heartbreak in the early years of the twentieth century. Praise for the writing of Janet Tanner: “A pleasure to read.” —Booklist “This well-told story holds the reader’s attention.” —Publishers Weekly
A woman’s search for the truth leads her into terrible danger in this compelling tale of suspense. Following a skiing accident, journalist Sally Proctor is recuperating at her parents’ rural Somerset home when she hears about a local man, Brian Jennings, who’s been jailed for arson. His sister, convinced of his innocence, is campaigning for his release – and Sally decides to help her by conducting her own enquiries. As she starts to uncover serious discrepancies in the original investigation, Sally and her family are threatened by a series of increasingly menacing incidents. It soon becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to stop her finding out the truth.
When a childhood mystery resurfaces, a bitter rivalry threatens to destroy the Penrose family... When Tamsin Hardy returns home from her post as a lady’s maid to attend her beloved mother’s sickbed, her childhood playmate Isobel Penrose offers her a post as her companion at Trevarrah House. Tamsin reluctantly accepts, but she feels instinctively uneasy about Trevarrah House despite her growing attraction to Isobel’s brother Adam, recently returned from the war in America. There is a bitter rivalry between Adam and his brother Nicholas, and Tamsin increasingly fears for her growing involvement with the Penrose family... A gripping tale of love and family, perfect for fans of Linda Finlay and Gloria Cook.
This book provides an oral history of women who served in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. It follows the trajectory of eight women’s lives from their decision to become nurses, to surgical and evacuation hospitals in Vietnam, and then home to face the consequences of war on their personal and professional lives. It documents their lived experience in Vietnam and explores the memories and personal stories of nurses who treated injured American soldiers, Vietnamese civilians, and the enemy. Their voices reveal the physical and emotional challenges, trauma, contradictions, and lingering effects of war on their lives. Women in the U.S. Army in Vietnam feared the enemy but also sexual violence and harassment: the experiences this book documents also shed light on the extent of historical sexual abuse in the military.
After Dawn Stephens' parents are killed in an accident, she is taken from her home in Canada to the small seaside town of Sturvendor in Somerset to live with her aunt and uncle, and even though she soon settles in well, Dawn still feels very alone in this strange new world.
A woman with a burning need to break free from her past . . . Rose Landro is on the run. Seeking refuge at the Rimrock Ranch, she is finally ready to claim the land her granddaddy left her and make a fresh start. But her return is rife with controversy when cattle begin disappearing—and a handsome menace named Tanner McCade starts watching Rose a little too closely. Could the new cowhand be connected to the men she’s hiding from? Or is there another reason the rugged stranger is shadowing her every move? A man ready to fight boldly for his future . . . There’s a secret in Rose Landro’s eyes, a mystery that Special Ranger Tanner McCade is determined to uncover. Even if the beauty isn’t behind the cattle rustling he’s investigating, she’s way too skittish, and all too exquisite for Tanner to just let slide past his piercing gaze. Then he discovers a vulnerability in Rose that has him aching to protect her—and longing to possess her. . . . “Big, bold, and sexy . . . Janet Dailey at her best!” —Kat Martin on Texas True “Plenty of intrigue, subplots, twists, and of course, love. Fans and newcomers alike will revel in this ride.” —Publishers Weekly on Texas Tall
Charlotte and James Hall and their seven children live hard-working but peaceful lives as coal miners in the village of Hillsbridge during the early twentieth century until World War I changes everything
How can you ever be sure how well you know someone . . .' Or if you know them at all . . .' Two years after the death of her husband, Michael, disturbing events begin to rock Jo's world. First Adam, Michael's friend and former partner, disappears, and then a web of deadly secrets begins to unfold. It seems that Adam has been involved in a murky world of big-time criminals who will stop at nothing to preserve their empire. Was Michael involved? Was his death connected in some way? Is he really dead?
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