ALL SHE WANTED WAS A HOME FOR CHRISTMAS London, 1936 Ill and stuck in hospital at Christmas, seven year old Cora Kelly is excited to receive a visit from her mother, who brings her the gift of a gingerbread man. But little does Cora know that this will be the last time she sees her . . . As Cora continues her recovery on a farm in the beautiful Norfolk countryside, tragedy strikes her family and she moves back to London with her new guardian, Eliza. Here...

The worst day of Tim Blake's life started out with him making breakfast for his 17 year-old daughter Sydney. Syd was staying with him while she worked a summer job. When she goes missing, Tim doesn't need to simply track her down - he needs to know who she really was.

When Daniel Stone was a child, he was teased mercilessly, but he fought back and became a 'bad kid', full of anger, until he got a girl pregnant and reinvented himself. However, 15 years later when his daughter is date raped, Daniel finds himself struggling with a rage that could destroy him and his family.

Ever since Sophia Saunders was murdered, her husband Peter and daughter Lauren have been trying to rebuild their lives. Desperate to fill the emotional void, Peter becomes involved with a woman from his grief support group. But as his relationship with Alice progresses, Lauren becomes unsettled. Why can't she find any trace of Alice online? Who is she, really, and what does she want? Lauren is right to be suspicious. But the deeper her investigation...

Sisters Margaret and Annie lost their mother years ago, they long for her every day. Their frightfully protective father keeps the girls close but he can't protect them forever. When a scandal rocks the family, the girls are forced to leave their home. The girls flee to Birmingham's jewellery quarter to stay with the one person they can rely on - Uncle Goldsmith. Annie takes up work at a nearby factory, where she learns to forge cutlery, and Margaret...

Hard on the heels of the 'The Dream House' and 'The Memory Garden', comes Rachel Hore's new novel set in a hidden part of Westminster, steeped in the Victorian past, full of gothic churches, strange little shops and secret garden squares.

When her parents marriage falls apart, Federica is forced to set up home in Cornwall with her mother. Embraced by the eccentric Appleby family, she loses her heart to their son Sam, who barely notices the little girl until it is too late.

Penny Leighton, TV Producer and wife of the local vicar Simon Canter, is struggling to cope with motherhood. The couple have had their only child Jenna, while Penny is in her forties and it's been a big shock to her system. When Simon engages the services of a nanny, Ella, as a way of helping Penny, it only serves to push her further away from him and from Jenna. After Penny's sister arrives in the village after the death of the woman Penny called...

Tyler Caskey was not born in West Annett but he has grown to love it. After suffering a terrible loss, Tyler finds it difficult returning to himself as he once was. In his darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his congregation's humanity - and his own will to endure trials.

Bridgestead is a quiet village: a babbling brook, rolling hills and a working mill at its heart. Pretty and remote, nothing exceptional happens, except for the day when Joshua Braithwaite, goes missing in dramatic circumstances, never to be heard of again. Now Joshua's daughter is getting married and wants one last attempt at finding her father. Has he run off with his mistress, or was he murdered for his mounting coffers? Kate Shackleton has always...