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Following a romantic shipboard marriage, Joanna Morcant has everything her heart could desire—a dashing new husband and an adorable baby son. But an unforeseen tragedy leaves Joanna destitute and with no choice but to return to her childhood home, the Isle of Portland off the Dorset coast, a place which holds disturbing memories from Joanna's troubled past. Just as Joanna is starting to make a new life for herself and her young son, Toby, the past rises up to haunt her once again. Toby's grandfather, the dissolute Lord Durrington, has vowed to take the child and make him his heir—whether Joanna agrees or not. And he's not the only sinister figure to emerge, determined to cause trouble. But in Joanna's darkest hour, a knight in shining armor will ride to her rescue—and that knight is someone she least expects.

Meggie Elliot is a young woman of above average intelligence, and on the brink of adulthood. Living with her aunt and uncle in London at the outbreak of World War 2 she’s intent on going to university, then pursuing a career in law. She is encouraged in this by her solicitor – a man she admires a little too much. Too old for her, he lets her know it. Meggie follows her dream as best she can, knowing it’s unlikely it will ever come to fruition. In a burst of patriotism she joins the WRNS to do her bit for the war effort. Sent to work in a decoding unit she meets the dangerously exhilarating young aristocrat, Nicholas Cowan, who sweeps her off her feet. But Meggie suspects Nick of being the man who burgled her aunt’s home, and to expose him would ruin a lot of lives. Against all reason Meggie and Nick begin to fall in love . . .

To avoid a terrible fate, she agrees to a marriage of convenience. But can it turn into a true love match ... ? 1815. Having fallen on hard times, doctor's daughter Grace Ellis serves as a lady's companion. But on Lady Florence's death, Grace discovers that she's been left an unexpected legacy by her former mistress. There's just one catch. In order to claim her inheritance, Grace must wed Lady Florence's disreputable nephew, a gruff army brigadier more than three times her age. She is offered a way out by family friend Dominic LeSayres, who determines to marry Grace himself in order to save her from a grim fate. But just as the proposed marriage of convenience looks set to turn into a true love match, others step in to crush Grace's happiness ...

1840. Seemingly respectable businessman Sir James Fenmore has taken a keen interest in impoverished sisters Miranda and Lucy Jarvis, establishing them in his household. But Sir James has quarrelled with his nephew, rakish smuggler Fletcher Taunt, and the hostility between the two men, one of whom Miranda comes to love, will change her life forever.

December 1816. Ryder never got over Adele, the woman who abandoned him at the altar. Believing Ryder to be dead, Adele has returned, a widow. She never stopped loving Ryder, but can she tell him why she left him? If the pair are to have a second chance at happiness, they must overcome their pride and admit their true feelings for one another.

1812. On receiving an unexpected inheritance, strong-willed Vivienne Fox vows to keep her new-found wealth secret, lest she be courted for her purse rather than her heart. To save his family lands, Lord Alex LeSayres must marry a wealthy woman - and quickly. Not knowing of Vivienne's fortune, he is determined to ignore his growing feelings for her.

Meet children from different time zones all around the world in Time Zone. TreeTops inFact is an exciting non-fiction series for children aged 711. Its range of subjects and careful levelling make it easy to select books that children will love.

England, 1835. A married woman, pregnant with her sea-captain lover's child, dies giving birth. The child is abandoned to an orphanage. Eighteen years later, her father, hearing rumors that his lost daughter survived, dispatches a detective to discover the truth.

Trying to please her father, Julia Howard marries wealthy businessman Latham Miller and soon finds herself being controlled by her possessive husband, a situation that is further complicated when she gives birth to a son and becomes reacquainted with war hero Martin Lee-Trafford.

An engrossing saga set in the north-east of Victorian England