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Life in 1905 is hard for the illegitimate Mary Ann. It rapidly becomes worse when her new stepfather begins to interfere with her. Sent away at fifteen to bear his child, she meets Gabriel Clough, who helps her escape to Blackpool after the birth.

India 1922. The wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one every year and always in March. The only link between the deaths is the small red roses that mysteriously appear on the women's graves on the anniversary of their deaths. When the pretty young wife of Captain Somersham is found with her wrists cut, the Governor of Bengal calls on the reluctant help of Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands, who is on secondment to the Bengal police. It becomes clear to Joe that the series of murders has not yet run its course.

In all her twenty-five years, Venetia has never been out of her locale nor interested in her two admirers. Then, in one extraordinary encounter she is tempted to cast aside her good name and reputation.

This is the tale of three women, one witch, one mermaid and one missing and how Ruby was caught up in between. When Isa Fly appears in the doorway of Captin Len's Fried Fish Shop, fourteen year-old Ruby is entranced. Isa comes from the coast where the air is fresh; unlike Ruby's home in Cradle Cross, its factory furnaces pumping and filthy slits of canal water sending up a stink. Isa is on the hunt for a missing person, and Ruby is eager to help, convinced she will be repaid with an adventure at sea.

Adele Russell was once a wealthy heiress, happily engaged to David, the Earl of Blaisdon, but when her father was ruined, she lost everything, including David. Now, working as a shop assistant in fashionable Milsom Street, she is shunned and scorned by the society that once embraced her. But when she finds an invitation to a forthcoming masked ball, Adele is tempted by the lures of her past once more. Both David and a mysterious Sir Mask attend the ball and Sir Mask is intent upon seducing her.

This fantastical historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India beginning in the late 1800s. The narrative follows the Khargat family from the intricacies of village life in the jungles of central India, to the complications of urban life in turbulent pre- and post-independence struggles, to contemporary diasporic realities in the United Kingdom and North America.

Miss Lauren Maitland was American born and bred, but felt quite at home in London society when she came to England to claim a vast inheritance. Only as a guest in Glenvane Castle in the Highlands did she learn how little she knew about sophisticated life and love. Darkly handsome Rory Ardmore, Earl of Glenvane, made her senses swim though he was openly involved with the gorgeous Lady Isabel Maxby. Meanwhile, Rory's wickedly attractive brother Jamie unleashed all his worldly wiles to make Lauren his.

When a new feature on Pete Newbury's popular TV programme shows his adult image digitally transformed to that of a young child, Beth is shocked to realise he's her 'baby' brother, who vanished without trace. Her mother, who has never recovered from the loss, desperately needs closure, but Pete makes it very clear he doesn't want to know his birth family. To further complicate matters, Beth finds herself falling in love with Pete's cousin and manager, Edward.

Saga set in medieval Britain telling of the lives of a group of men and women whose destinies are fatefully linked with the building of a cathedral.

Travel back to 1924 and experience the early days of group settlement in Northcliffe with Maggie Spencer, sharing her joys and sorrows.