It was in the middle of a snowstorm when Tiggy arrived at the remote house on Bodmin Moor. She was alone, her partner tragically dead in an accident, and Julia, her dearest friend, welcomed her into her warm and chaotic family. Tiggy started to live again and await the birth of her child, but nearly thirty years later, when her son is about to become a father himself, the next generation discovers that there are secrets from the past which must be...

When they meet Abigail they are swayed by her beauty and charm, but puzzled by the aura of mystery that surrounds her. Callum Firbank is successful, with a loving family and a comfortable home. But he has always been evasive about his childhood. Jill Irving runs a hotel in Dorset and has everything she could wish for. She also has secrets in her past. What links these three very different people? And who is the mysterious stranger whose appearance...

A person is defined by the secrets they keep ... Adam Kulakov likes his life. He's on the right side of middle age; the toy company he owns brightens the lives of children around the world; and he has more money than he can ever spend, a wife and child he adores, and as many mistresses as he can reasonably hide from them. And he is not the only one with secrets. In 1944, Adam's grandfather, Arkady, was imprisoned in Auschwitz and given an impossible...

Sophia is engaged to be married. Over the years she has lost a great deal - but not her ambition for a secure future. One day she learns of a strange legacy. To receive her bequest, she must return to Needlewick. There she seeks out the places of her childhood - and following her there are others from her past.

It is the summer of 1979. A tamed brown bear finds himself tempted by the lure of freedom and the wild open sea. Meanwhile a grieving, broken family arrive on a windswept island in the Outer Hebrides, looking for the time and space to understand the strange, bewildering events that led to the loss of their husband and father.

To lose your family is heartbreaking. To be forgotten by them is unforgivable. Cassie and Erin are sisters. They are close - in age, looks and personality - but there is one crucial difference: Cassie is adopted. At 17, Cassie sets out to find her birth mother. She is hungry for the truth, but she discovers her adoption was far more complicated than even she could have imagined. In uncovering her real identity Cassie learns her adoptive parents have...

The past A lonely and imaginative child, Julia loves her family's beautiful and wild Cornish home, Tawray, with all her heart. But, marked by her family's dark troubles, Julia enters her adult years determined to leave and seek a new beginning in London. It's there she meets the handsome David Pengelly. They fall in love, but when Julia becomes pregnant, even he can't stop the terrible echoes of the past from ringing in her ears. The only sound to...

When an injured teenager goes missing at a remote bushland campground, local journalist Abby Bardot is determined to expose the area's dark history. The girl bears a striking resemblance to the victims of three brutal murders that occurred 20 years ago and Abby fears the killer is still on the loose. But the newspaper Abby works for wants to suppress the story for fear it will scare off tourists to the struggling township. Haunted by her own turbulent...

In a small rosewood box, Matt's mother had kept her memories of his childhood. Amongst them are many photos of him as a little boy. But something about them has always puzzled Matt - is that really him? Why did he not remember those clothes? The toys? And where, in these photos, is his sister Imogen? He wrestles with an odd lack of recognition - a strange unsettling feeling that something is not quite right. Meanwhile, Imogen is living with her husband,...

Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long-lost letter arrives one Sunday afternoon with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, Edie begins to suspect that her mother?s emotional distance masks an old secret. As a 13-year-old World War Two evacuee, Edie?s mother was chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe and taken to live at Milderhurst Castle with the Blythe family: Juniper, her twin sisters and their father, Raymond,...