The End of Summer

by Rosamunde Pilcher

Published 18 October 1971
Sitting on a California beach at summer's end, Jane Marsh thinks back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembers not only the heather-covered hills and the lonesome loch, but her grandmother ...and, of course, Sinclair. She has secretly dreamed of marrying rakishly handsome Sinclair and settling at Elvie forever. Then an urgent visit from her grandmother's lawyer becomes the catalyst for her return to Scotland ...Where waiting for her is passion, not gentle love, and the chilling realisation that she may be ready to wed the wrong man.

The Empty House

by Rosamunde Pilcher

Published May 1973
Virginia Keile has a secret dream. To have a second chance at loving the tall, handsome Cornish farmer she met - and foolishly lost - the heady summer she was a debutante. Life has taught Virginia a great deal in twenty-seven years - about wedding a titled bachelor picked out by her mother, about a lonely marriage that ended in her husband's accidental death, and about nearly losing her children to her husband's mother and bossy Nanny. Now she has come back to picturesque Cornwall to rent a battered seaside cottage. For herself and for the children. And to discover if this time she can fill an empty house with love.

Day of the Storm

by Rosamunde Pilcher

Published 14 August 1975
At her dying mother's bedside, Rebecca Bayliss is shattered to learn of a family she never knew existed. Determined to find them, Rebecca journeys to Boscarva, a beautiful mansion in Cornwall, to meet a family torn by passion and greed. From her grandfather Grenville Bayliss, who is hiding an explosive secret, to a handsome cousin, whose kisses are dangerously seductive ...to sensual craftsman Joss Gardner, whose past hints of intrigue, Rebecca becomes entangled in a family mystery ...and unravelling it holds the key to her future and her heart.

Snow in April

by Rosamunde Pilcher

Published January 1991
Caroline Cliburn is to be married next week. She and her brother Jody have taken a drive to Scotland in search of their missing brother Angus. As the landscape grows stark and wintry with each mile, Caroline recognizes a coldness inside her. She never dreamed a sudden spring blizzard would leave them stranded, or that snow in April could give her one last chance to find the healing warmth of love...