Alexandra allowed herself a moment’s reflection. Her life had been very good in London, sharing a large house with friends, earning money cooking or waitressing with one of the friends and doing the antiques stall with another one at weekends. She was a person who made the best of things, but life in Switzerland was going to feel lonely and confined. At home she’d be stuck with her boring, formal relations and at finishing school she’d be surrounded by girls she’d probably have nothing in common with.

‘At least let me do your make-up,’ said Donna. ‘All my spare time was spent practising how to put on eyeliner without smudging it. You have such lovely eyes; it will be such fun emphasising their beauty. He’ll have to give you the job!’

Have you read them all?

Living Dangerously

For Polly, life is complicated enough without a relationship. Surely, love is only a distraction …

The Rose Revived

May, Sally and Harriet decide to kick-start their own business. Is it too much to hope for the same in their romantic lives?

Wild Designs

When Althea loses her job, she decides to transform her life and pursue her passion for gardening.

Stately Pursuits

Hetty is drawn into a fight to save a crumbling stately home.

Life Skills

When Julia goes to work on a pair of hotel boats, her past follows her …

Thyme Out

Perdita runs into her ex-husband unexpectedly. Can love blossom between them for a second time?

Artistic Licence

Thea runs off to Ireland with a charming artist and finds herself having to choose between two men.

Highland Fling

Jenny Porter dashes off to Scotland and gets caught in a complicated love triangle …

Paradise Fields

Which man can Nel trust to help preserve the meadow and farmers’ market she loves?

Restoring Grace

Ellie and Grace embark on restoring a stately home, but have to reckon with the help of the disconcertingly attractive Flynn Cormack.

Flora’s Lot

Flora joins the family antique business and finds herself fending off dinner invitations from the devastatingly handsome Henry.

Practically Perfect

Anna decides to renovate a beautiful cottage that is perfect on the outside but anything but on the inside.

Going Dutch

Jo and Dora live on a barge boat and have both sworn off men until they meet Marcus and Tom …

Wedding Season

Complications ensue when wedding planner Sarah agrees to plan two weddings on the same day.

Love Letters

When the bookshop where she works has to close, Laura agrees to help organise a literary festival, with complicated results …

A Perfect Proposal

Fed up with living her life for others, Sophie jets off to New York for the trip of a lifetime.

Summer of Love

Sian moves to the country with her young son to start a new life.

Recipe for Love

Zoe is invited to compete in a televised cookery competition. There is only one problem; one of the judges is too tasty to resist …