Fiona Walker Books

Running Away... Since leaving Polwenna Bay for the bright lights of London, actress Summer Penhalligan has tried her hardest to never look back; Jake, her childhood sweetheart, let her down terribly and the beautiful Cornish village holds nothing but painful memories. It's only when a volatile relationship threatens to destroy all she holds dear that Summer finds herself returning to the place she knows so well. Jake Tremaine has travelled the world but reluctantly finds himself drawn back to Polwenna Bay to run the family marina and take care of his unruly siblings. While Jake knows his attention should be on the rescuing the business, determined Ella, daughter of a wealthy hotelier, is set on working her way into his affections and beneath his sheets. The last thing Ella will tolerate is the reappearance of a rival... As the holiday season approaches and seaside life gathers pace, Jake suspects that Summer is keeping a huge secret from him. But Summer is not the only person in the village with something to hide. Is she just an echo of Jake's past or are there far more important matters at stake?

Wedding bells or one big hitch? Tash French just isn’t sure. If her potty grandmother hadn’t mistaken a Christmas cracker engagement ring for the genuine article, there wouldn’t be a wedding at all. Still less the elaborate, no-expense-spared circus that’s rapidly taking over her life. But at least Tash can be sure of Niall – her actor fiancé. They know his script for the Big Day is already learnt by heart.

A summer holiday with her eccentric, infuriating family and assorted glamorous hangers-on is the last thing Tash French would usually volunteer for. But her mother is insistent and, out of a job and recently ditched by her boyfriend, Tash decides that spending July in the vast rambling Loire chateau might have its compensations.It's a summer of lust, bed-hopping, unresolved sexual tension, horses, dogs, bolshy kids and lots of bad behaviour. And in the midst of bedlam, at least two people fall in love . . .

Felix Sylvian is a charming, silken-tongued dilettante, he has the sex-appeal of a school-girl's day-dream and the soul of a poet. But he has one nasty habit he can't seem to break: a sadistic tendency to ride rough-shod over any girl foolish enough to fall for him.Saskia Seaton is Felix's latest victim. Once a beautiful, precocious aspiring actress, she is now a suicidal wreck after a whirlwind affair with Felix and a force ten finale. Retreating to lick her wounded pride, she decides she wants poetic justice.And her friend Phoebe's the one to get it. With Saskia's help, Phoebe will become Felix's dream woman. She will pursue him across his London playground and seduce him until he falls in love with her and then she'll drop him just as he has so many women in the past.But Phoebe doesn't realise that when she tries to break Felix's nasty habit, she'll find herself breaking her own heart ...

They say you should never go back, but glamorous Ronnie did just that, to the home she ran away from with her lover. But not everyone is finding it easy to forgive and forget...

'With feisty characters, sexy menfolk, long-buried secrets and a healthy dollop of sauce, this book is a total riot from start to end' Heat .

Can you ever have a second chance at first love? When Ronnie Percy's gorgeous on-off lover Blair is forced to deep-freeze their affair for the sake of his sick wife, she's delighted to be distracted by charismatic neighbour, Kit Donne, and – more surprisingly – finds herself drawn into a fight for the future of the village. But then the return of someone from her distant past threatens to expose long-buried secrets. Meanwhile daughter Pax – already besieged by her controlling estranged husband – has started to suspect that new beau 'the horsemaker' Luca still loves somebody else. The last shoulder on earth she should cry on is Bay Austen's, but his marriage is crumbling and he's lost none of his dangerous charm. Moreover, Bay knows the way to her heart is through her horses... Old friendships, new loves, jealousies, gossip and beautiful horses – these are the classic ingredients for Fiona Walker's latest gripping, sexy novel, set in the Cotswold village of Compton Magna and laced with her trademark humour.

A budding stand-up comic, Juno is voluptuous, hedonistic, funny and terminally untidy. On her thirtieth birthday, she decides to have a wild one-night-stand to mark the occasion. But seducing her new flatmate before he's had a chance to unpack his belongings is not a wise move. Just over from New York, Jay Mulligan is intense, mysterious and, as Juno joyously discovers, far better than breakfast in bed. It's only when they both get out of that bed on the wrong side three days later that the problems start ...

When Ellen Jamieson breaks up with her long-standing boyfriend, she plans to go travelling. But first she agrees to house-sit for her parents, who are trying to find a buyer for their idyllic cottage in the Cotswold village of Oddlode. The village is full of quaint and eccentric characters, both blue-blooded and below the salt, and Ellen is the subject of much speculation. Under the wing of Ophelia ('Touchy Pheely') Gently, an impoverished local sculptor, Ellen goes to an Auction of Promises village fundraiser and wins a mysterious lot of three wishes. These have been donated by Jasper Belling, the incredibly gorgeous prodigal son of the local lord of the manor. Falling in love with a notorious hell-raiser is the last thing Ellen intended, and the convoluted scandals of the villagers put many obstacles in the way of the young lovers. Several ancient skeletons come rattling out of various cupboards before a no-holds-barred, loved-up finale.

From the very first day they move to homes in the Oddlode Valley, Mo, Diana and Anke find their lives entangled. As the long, hot summer burns its embers into winter, old flames are ignited and fanned - is this just a flash in the pan, or is somebody fuelling the fire? Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005.

Dive into a summer of surprises . . . Jenny loves to house-sit: looking after a stranger's perfect home and pretending to be someone else - just for a bit. Her latest booking is a beautiful rambling country house owned by the glamorous Lewis family. Freed of teaching duties for the summer, Jenny plans to do nothing more challenging than walk the family's badly behaved dog and laze by the pool. Her idyll is disrupted by skeletons in the Lewis closet. Stumbling across hidden messages and passionate secrets, Jenny finds herself exposing far more than just home truths. She uncovers a seductive second chance: to open herself up to love again and to finally live life on her own terms.

Odette, who looks like Linda Lusardi in a DKNY suit and has more zeros at the end of her bank balance than an astronaut's altimeter, decides to throw up the high-powered job that doesn't leave time for relationships and start her own club/restaurant. When the venture seems doomed before it has even begun by a rival chef who is as gorgeous as Jean Christophe Novelli and as temperamental as Marco Pierre White, Odette determines on revenge. Accepting a menial job in her enemy's kitchen, she plots his downfall - but ends up getting her heart broken, fingers burnt and her goose cooked. . .

Can fate be signed, sealed and delivered? When Allegra North parted from first love Francis after a decade together, she poured all her regret into a letter. He didn't reply. A year later, her job brings her back to the beautiful Devon coast where romance first blossomed and she hopes that they can start a new chapter. As summer storms circle, the exes juggle rebellious parents, vengeful family members and a very reluctant celebrity author who holds the key to everybody's future . . . The Love Letter is a wonderfully warm comedy of mistaken identities, new loves and old flames.

Hidden amid lush parkland, Eardisford is the ultimate English country retreat and it's just been sold for the first time in its history. Romantic daredevil Kat Mason has been bequeathed the estate's lakeside sanctuary, Lake Farm, until she dies or marries. But the new owners want her out now . . .In rides charming playboy Dougie Everett, the man hired to sweep Kat off her feet and off the property. Dougie loves nothing more than the thrill of the chase, but does he risk losing his heart along the way?

The announcement of a grand Treasure Hunt sets the Lodes Valley ladies' hearts aflutter. The cash is only part of the appeal—a win could solve several romantic dilemmas. Pixie Guinness sees the quest as a route back to her wayward husband; teenage daydreamer Faith hopes to snare her true love, Rory; and new arrival Liv—well, Liv just wants distraction from the boredom of country life. But it is unhappily married Trudy who finds the trail of clues leads her in quite a different direction, and one closer and closer to temptation. Is she chasing a rainbow or just chasing her own tail? As the hunt reaches its climax, the competitors find they are fighting for the highest prize of all—their own happy ending.

The scandalous new romantic romp from 1.5 million selling chick lit queen Fiona Walker.

Meet Lucy Gordon, the sweet, scatty, irresistible heroine of Fiona Walker's delicious novel. Lucy lives in a Berkshire village with her two friends, Jane and Bella, and works in the marketing department of Widgetex Computers. Her boss - Slave Driver - is a constant bane; her family are lovable eccentrics; her boyfriend, the dishy but fickle Greg, takes shameless advantage of her (Lucy is too good hearted to notice). Throughout two action-packed, fun-filled, disaster-strewn years, Lucy charts an erratic course among this motley crew to her very own happy ending.

Following the phenomenal success of Girls' Night In, you're invited to spend another night with the hottest women authors in town . . . and some fellas as well (under strict supervision, of course). Over forty of your favourite writers have written stories specially for Girls' Night In, Gentlemen by Invitation, making it the chunkiest and funkiest book around. And since all of the proceeds go to the charity War Child, by buying this book you've made a difference to the lives of children devastated by conflict. Guaranteed to make you laugh, cry and . . . blush, Girls' Night In, Gentlemen by Invitationcontains bedtime stories that your parents never told you.

The hotly anticipated wedding of Iris Devonshire, ravishing teenage daughter of celebrity couple Mia and Leo, is to be held in the gardens of their grand Palladian pile alongside the Thames. But Mia and Leo worry that she's rushing into the marriage. Just ask their best friends since college, Simon and Laney de Montmorency, whose relationship is on the rocks again - and they've already married each other twice. On the big day, Iris's hellraiser fiancé Dougie Everett is not the only one flying high. As Iris rides up the aisle on a white stallion, a hot air balloon appears over the woods, heading straight for the ceremony. Its arrival is about to transform the lives and loves of some of the wedding guests for ever. The Summer Wedding is a sizzling summer comedy set against the beautiful backdrops of the Chilterns, Spain, Africa and LA.

With tight breeches and loose morals, the horse trials circuit is a hell-for-leather chase across the magnificent parkland of England's finest country estates. Flirtation is compulsory sport; love is a professional hazard. Silver-tongued charmer Rory Midwinter is quite at home in this hedge-jumping, bed-hopping world of competitive weekend house parties. Having been born into the saddle, and with a rock star owner as patron, he has no intention of settling down. Only his long-term groom Faith has other ideas. Tash and Hugo Beauchamp are the undisputed golden couple of British three-day eventing, but their mettle is put to the test by the arrival of The Devil on Horseback, brooding Kiwi rider, Lough Strachan. Lough holds the key to Hugo's darkest secret, and he intends to use it to access his greatest rival's beautiful wife.

Das ist Lucy Gordon: Anfang zwanzig, leicht chaotisch, wohnhaft in einem kleinen Ort in Berkshire, angestellt bei Widgetex Ltd., wo sie Werbekampagnen für absurde Elektrogeräte ausbrütet. Ihr Chef, Gavin "Sklaventreiber" Slater, nervt ohne Unterlass, und ihr Mal-mehr-mal-weniger-Lover Greg, der smarte Pilot aus Wexbury, sorgt für eine Menge Gesprächsstoff zwischen ihr und ihren Mitbewohnerinnen Bella und Jane. Ansonsten umgeben Lucy noch ihre Mutter Liv, leidenschaftliche Köchin und Sprachtherapeutin, ihr Vater Malcolm, Heimwerker aus Passion und Zahnarzt von Beruf, ihre jüngere Schwester Alice, lustlose Abiturientin mit einem ausgeprägten Hang zu Rave-Partys und Demonstrationen, und last but not least ihre Großmutter Violet, eine überaus trinkfeste alte Dame mit einer Vorliebe für feuchtfröhliche Bridgepartien.§§Tja, und Lucy selbst, deren höchst amüsantes Tagebuch fast ebenso gut unser eigenes sein könnte, ist definitiv zu gut für diese Welt, das finden nicht nur Bella und Jane. Unbekümmert glaubt Lucy an Greg - und mal ehrlich, wer täte das nicht bei einem so verdammt gut aussehenden Mann? Leider nutzt dieser sie jedoch schamlos aus, und es muss erst eine Menge passieren, bis Lucy endlich die rosa Brille absetzt.

Karriere in der Werbebranche zu machen ist eine Sache - ein kleines Restaurant zu führen eine andere! Das muss Odette lernen, als sie ihren Schreibtisch gegen einen Kochlöffel tauscht. Aber nicht nur Gäste und Menüfolgen sind kompliziert, auch Odettes Liebesleben ist alles andere als einfach - was vor allem an Callum liegt. Der ist reich und faszinierend, nur eins fehlt ihm: ein Herz für Odette. Aber die ist nicht bereit, aufzugeben, zumal sie von ihrer bunten Freundesclique tatkräftig unterstützt wird.

Odette zieht sich nach einer gescheiterten Beziehung aufs Land zurück, um sich selbst zu lieben. In einer Windmühle entdeckt sie, dass Johnny, den sie zunächst für uninteressant hielt, der Mann ist, der ihr wahres Glück bringen kann.

Eine chaotische, liebenswerte Protagonistin, skurrile Charaktere, exzentrischer Landadel, idyllische Umgebung, Witz, Charme und Spannung - was wünscht sich frau mehr zur Unterhaltung ...Diana hat sich von ihrem Mann Tim getrennt und ist entschlossen, ihrem früheren Leben komplett den Rücken zu kehren. Was liegt näher, als mit ihren beiden Kindern nach Oddlode zurückzukehren, in das hübsche kleine Dorf, in dem sie aufgewachsen ist? Sie ist nicht der einzige Neuankömmling. Auch die Lehrerin Mo und Anke, die dänische Reiterin, hat es hierher verschlagen. Sie alle versuchen in der Dorfgemeinschaft Fuß zu fassen, doch dieser Sommer hat es in sich: Unversehens beginnt ein Bäumchen-wechsle-dich-Spiel mit den eigenen und fremden Partnern. Mos Partner wirft ein Auge auf Diana, Ankes Ehemann versucht Mo ins Bett zu bekommen, und Dianas Bruder, der bereits die Herzen der gesamten weiblichen Dorfbevölkerung gebrochen hat, steht plötzlich der Traumfrau seiner Teenager-Tage gegenüber ... Nicht genug mit diesen Liebesverwicklungen: In der Vergangenheit des idyllischen kleinen Dorfes gibt es einen nie aufgeklärten Fall von Mord, Brandstiftung und einem verlorenen Vermögen, der seinen Schatten bis in die Gegenwart wirft, als Diana auf ihre Jugendliebe Amos trifft.

Ellen hat all ihr Hab und Gut (samt Collie Snorkel und Kater Fins) in einen Jeep verstaut und braust davon in Richtung Oddlode, ein kleines Nest in den idyllischen Cotswolds. Nach der Trennung von ihrem langjährigen Freund Richard will sie eigentlich eine Weltreise machen. Dass sie diese ausgerechnet in den Cotswolds beginnt, liegt an ihren Eltern. Denn die besitzen dort ein Cottage, das Ellen in ihrem Auftrag verkaufen soll. So landet die von Trennungsschmerz geplagte Ellen in einem Provinznest, wo jeder jeden kennt und jeder über jeden alles weiß. Ellen ist bald mitten drin im tobenden Dorfleben, ob es sich nun um nachlässige Verwalter, verschwundene Kater oder geheimnisvolle verbogene Hufeisen handelt. Und dann ist da noch Spurs Belling, der mit dem Wort »sexy« nur höchst unzulänglich beschrieben wäre … Wer braucht da noch eine Weltreise?!