Bill Bailey's Daughter (Featuring Bill Bailey, #3) (The Bailey Chronicles, #3)
by Catherine Cookson
Bill and Fiona Bailey are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their first child...Catherine Cookson uses her unique gifts to splendid effect in this heartwarming story.
John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was isolated from all the people and events about him by the tragedy of his past. Then he met Cissie, and for the first time his loneliness eased a little.Cissie was everything his wife Ann was not. She was warm, and compassionate, and generous. And she was quick to sense the needs of a desolate, unhappy man.But Cissie was also a young widow: poor, and with a young son to support. And John Emmerson was one of the town's leadin...
Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880, she was running them as confidently as any man. Yet the path destiny required her to follow was not an easy one. Her feckless cousin Victoria became infatuated with Lionel Filmore, the fortune-hunting elder son of an old but impoverished family living in the decayed grandeur of Grove House. Bridget had no illusions abo...
Pit deputy John Wilde knows it's high time he settled down and found himself a wife. Elsie Hartley, the butcher's pretty daughter, seems a worthy candidate. But although at first she encourages his courtship, Elsie abruptly changes her mind for reasons John cannot understand. John's wounded pride is soothed by his growing friendship with another attractive young woman. Feisty and outspoken, Alice Peters' passionate support of the suffragette cause is bound to make her unpopular among the traditi...
Francesca, the golden voice of London's nightlife was at the heightof her career, destined for stardom and breathlessly in love with her composer-partner Fane, when disaster struck. When Francesca lost her voice, Fane dropped her, and she was suddenly alone, heartbroken, her life in shreds. Her new friend Julian was kind and attentive, but in the snow-swept Swiss Alps, Francesca's heart would forever belong to Fane. When she accepted Julian's strange proposal, Francesca began an adventure that...
For Michael, handsome heir to a business empire, and Nancy, beautiful young orphan, the carefree days of innocence were drawing to an end. That fateful day after graduation, they sealed a bond for the years to come - a vow of love that would have to prove itself in the face of terrible tragedy.
Midwives' Miracles: Special Moments
by Fiona McArthur, Carol Marinelli, and Louisa Heaton
A night like no other Midwife Ellie Swift has vowed never to get involved with another man—but then the sexy new obstetrician walks through the door! Despite his own damaged heart, Sam Southwell is captivated by Ellie's warmth and compassion. She's a woman who deserves a fairy tale! If only she realises that…•Midwife Freya has a new job in busy London – and a new crush on sexy consultant Richard Lewis! Charismatic yet commitment-phobic bachelor Richard comes wit...
To have and to hold? Reluctant debutante Lady Clarissa Macpherson has never forgotten the forbidden kiss she shared with notorious rake, Lord Theodore Bennett, all those years ago. Even now, he’s the one man who sets Clarissa’s pulse racing and her skin tingling – no matter how hard she tries to ignore it! Yet, when Theodore rescues her from the unwanted advances of a drunken Lord at a society ball, she finds herself in a most scandalous predicament –...
A perfect, feel-good summer read about love, life and family. One long hot summer. Secrets never stay buried for long… Portia is determined to restore Buttersley Manor, her family’s crumbling ancestral home, to its former glory. Yet she has a feeling that there are a few forgotten skeletons in the dust-covered cupboards. Jenny has put her life on hold for far too long. It’s time to finally start living and to dig up those hopes and dreams she...
The Vicar's Daughter (Best of Betty Neels) (Harlequin Romance, #3527)
by Betty Neels
All the village assumed that Margo Pearson was to marry George, but unexpectedly meeting Professor Gijs van Kessel changed that. A plain, practical girl, Margo knew the professor was unlikely to look her way, until a tragic accident brings an offer of marriage.