Fiction: narrative themes

A year after the death of her husband, Blythe Wyndham moves with her four-year-old daughter, Maddie, back to the small town where she grew up.

When two ambitious families occupy the same patch of English soil, rivalry is sure to take root and flourish.

Private investigator Jack McPhee has a two-word business philosophy: no partners.

When a fortune-teller shows bridesmaid Lauren Crow an omen of her gruesome death, she and her friends laugh it off as cheesy theatrics-until women begin disappearing in the night.

So Carlotta Wren's life hasn't turned out as she'd planned.

Kendra and Jamie were never storybook sisters.

'He has a gun.

'Ingenious' - Huffington Post.

Nine people have gathered for the reading of Aurore Gerritsen's will.

Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' - CandisIt's a time of change for a small prairie town Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, has a will to survive, to prosper.

This is no dream.

Angela Taylor owes her life to the Texas Ranger who rescued her from a band of no-good renegades.

When is a family no longer a family?

The footprints were etched in the snow for miles, passing through walls and crossing rivers.

Mystery writer and dabbling recreational sleuth Sophie Katz is head over heels in love-with a three-bedroom Victorian.

Feisty orphan Pippa de Lacey lives by wit and skill as a London street performer.

Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' - CandisRancher Lonny Ellison has never known a woman like Joy Fuller.

Two-for-One Trouble!

Amun - Immortal Keeper of SecretsHe can manipulate your darkest toughts Chained and isolated to protect those he loves from his terrifying power, death is Amun's only hope of release - until he meets Haidee, a fellow prisoner whose beauty and vulnerability draw him in.

Chloe Marin was lucky.

YOUR LITTLE GIRL HAS BEEN STOLEN.

Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy' - CandisShirley, Goodness and Mercy are back!

Melody Tarleton is driving home for Christmas when a man-clad in Revolutionary War-era costume-appears out of nowhere, right in the path of her car.

Forced to his knees in agony whenever he speaks the truth, Gideon can recognize any lie-until he captures Scarlet, a demon-possessed immortal who claims to be his long-lost wife.

Aeron - Immortal Keeper of WrathHis anger is his power For weeks, the immortal warrior Aeron has sensed an invisible female presence.

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO MAKE A TOUGH CHOICE, KNOWING IT MIGHT GET YOU KILLED.

Vengeance or love?

Doomed to escort the souls of the innocent - and the wicked - to their final resting place.

'Yet another great story from Diane Chamberlain!

The werecat council has three cardinal laws ; and headstrong Faythe stands accused of breaking two of them: infecting a human with her supernatural skills and killing him to cover her tracks.

Shady is the town where I grew up in every way a young man could, where I saw every kind of good and bad there is to see.

The Sunday Times BestsellerFrom the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny, inspirational memoir'It's beautiful - full of love and light - and an exploration into not only how, but why we survive, despite everything' Christie Watson, author of The Language of KindnessOn Good Friday, 2010 Melanie Reid fell from her horse, breaking her neck and fracturing her lower back.

In the intense August heat, three local kids, Matthew, Andy and Josh, spend their time exploring the woods and secret places of Deloume Road and ignoring the ghostly boy Miles Ford, who's almost invisible anyway.

What would you do if you suddenly and unexpectedly inherited 17million?

Tokyo, 1912.

'Fascinating' Choice'This well-researched novel draws you straight into the heart of this engaging story' My Weekly'A stunning evocative novel.

Readers of Carole Matthews, Jenny Colgan, Lucy Diamond and Milly Johnson will love this delightfully light-hearted, witty and sparkling romantic comedy.

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Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Donna Douglas, a saga full of the heart-wrenching emotion and drama of World War II from bestselling author Margaret Mayhew.

An outstanding debut novel - an original and engaging black comedy about an angst-ridden twenty-something Londoner whose main achievement in life seems to be that he can prove that he's a loser.

Fans of Lee Child and Harlan Coben will love this gripping, moody and heart-stoppingly tense crime thriller from Hollywood screenwriter David Levien.

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