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  • Cassandra
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    Cassandra
    Ann Firth

    Cassandra, nicknamed Kasey, is fresh out of university with an honours degree in fashion and design. She is determined to have her clothes on her catwalk, thinking she may have found this chance with Peter, only to find he had other ideas that she was not prepared to indulge in, as she knew he was married.


    Totally disillusioned and down, her father slipped a card to her at breakfast, saying, “I met this chap last night at a dinner, and he’s a photographer who does a lot of catwalk work, so I briefly mentioned you, and he said he’d be happy to take you along sometime. If you’re interested, give him a ring.”


    Not particularly interested at this point but decided later that day she would phone him. They arrange to meet in a local car park. Standing there watching all the cars coming in, she was expecting a middle-aged man, possibly in a beaten-up Fiat, when a bright red Ferrari drove in and then stopped right in front of her.


    ‘I wish,’ she thought, when a very good-looking man in his 30s wearing tight-fitting chinos and a white shirt saying, ‘Cassandra’. I’m your lift.

    £9.99
  • The Faded Tea Rooms
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    The Faded Tea Rooms
    Ursula Maye

    When Jamie opens his tea rooms one morning, he finds a young woman leaning quietly against a wall. Rosie has left her partner after losing her grandparents and is feeling isolated. Jamie and friends in the village help her understand why she feels the way she does and how she can move forward.


    The journey involves her visiting two elderly sisters, who share their life stories with her. She finds that she is not the only person who has lost loved ones. Working alongside them, she remembers that she had plans for her future, including developing her baking and hamper-making skills, and she discusses this with her new friends.


    Rosie learns to listen to them and her heart, allows Philip to enter her life again, and realises that loss can allow for new experiences.


    A gentle romance readers could relate to!

    £9.99
  • Shining Light: The Love That Saved Her
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    Shining Light: The Love That Saved Her
    Alma Will

    What can a soul remember when the heart is fully open for love and ready to listen to the universe?


    In this sensual and tantalisingly soulful follow-up, Gatinha returns with a hypnotic blend of truth and fiction, inviting readers into a deeper journey: one of embodied healing, feminine power, and a spirituality that pulses beneath the surface, beyond what the eyes can see.


    As her reality begins to slip—raw, dreamlike, and stirred by a delicious kind of madness—she’s pulled into a realm where time bends, the body remembers, and pleasure becomes a sacred language of its own.


    In the liminal space between longing and surrender, past and present entwine. And to reclaim her peace, one woman must bare herself to the echoes of memory and the fire of desire.


    This is a story where silence moans louder than words, where touch becomes truth, and intimacy opens the door to transformation.


    A story of sacred sensuality, surrender, and the irresistible return to the self – whole, wild, and utterly alive. Contains soul. Contains sex. You’ve been warned.

    £11.99
  • The Sixth Wife
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    The Sixth Wife
    Inga Grencberga

    Alice Berg is a marketing executive in her mid-20s who has just moved to a big, bustling European city. Her future looks bright until one day, she encounters fate at a traffic crossing, and her life changes forever.

    Soon, Alice finds herself caught in the grips of an exciting and erotic, yet toxic, love affair with the famous writer Mikhail, who is twice her age. Despite her repeated attempts to end the relationship, she finds it impossible to leave him. Over the next ten years of their turbulent romance, will Alice manage to save herself, or will she drown in the abyss of Mikhail’s poisoned love, destined to remain in her perpetual role as ‘the other woman’?

     

    Peppered with intimate details, The Sixth Wife is based on true events from the author’s own life. Raw, mystical, and elegant, the novel doesn’t shy away from addressing thought-provoking societal taboos that reflect women’s experiences but are rarely explored in fiction, including abortion, major depression, and the long-term effects of emotional abuse.

    £10.99
  • Love Game
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    Love Game
    Kevin Kenna

    This novel is fast-moving and replete with absorbing romances, real-life experiences and plenty of excitement. All the characters make significant inputs into the whole theme of the story and there is an easy blending between the main characters. Drama abounds throughout the book and readers will be easily enticed into all the various dramatic aspects of the story. Although the book is fast-moving, the readers will enjoy what is a very impelling saga with all its twists and turns.

    £11.99
  • Jessica's Baby
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    Jessica's Baby
    Maureen McLean

    Tianna was adopted at birth and has been searching for her birth mother for eighteen years and finds love on the way.


    Rhys is the love that Tianna thought she’d never find, but loving Rhys isn’t easy, as he strolls into her life, carrying unpacked baggage, and drowning in love for his ex. And this is where trouble walks uninvited into Tianna and Rhys’ life, and trouble has a name: his ex-girlfriend’s husband, Alex Roberts.


    Falling head over heels with her new lover brings joy, deceit, betrayal, and undeserving heartache, whilst dealing with the reality of finding out her true identity also comes with a heavy price tag. Learning the truth may not be something Tianna is willing to accept so easily, but with the help of her true friends, she softens the many blows.


    Is Tianna prepared for untruths being spoken? As fate would have it, dark and twisted truths emerge, raise their ugly heads, and sting like an angry bee.

    £11.99
  • Under the Heartbreak
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    Under the Heartbreak
    Roxie Holland

    Olive Fitzgerald is no stranger to a broken heart. She was left devastated when fate destroyed her chance at a happily ever after.


    Tyler Saunders was betrayed by the fiancée he was planning a wedding with. This twist in his fate led him to move in with Olive as her lodger, just days before a national lockdown started, forcing them together, alone and cut off from other people.


    Amidst the solitude, their friendship blossomed, deepening in the years that followed.


    As Olive and Tyler tentatively re-enter the dating scene, they cheer each other on. Olive’s new boyfriend, Blake, is a sexy, free-spirited musician. Tyler’s girlfriend, Harriet, seems perfect—yet something about her leaves Olive feeling like she’s swimming with sharks.


    When mutual friends Becky and Leo announce their engagement, Olive and Tyler dive into wedding preparations. But as Olive strives to create the perfect day for those she loves, an unexpected face from her past resurfaces, reopening old wounds. Now, she must confront the pain she thought she’d buried and ask herself: Can a broken heart ever truly heal?

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  • The Dawn of Enlightenment
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    The Dawn of Enlightenment
    Lynda Thrift

    Foisted onto an unwilling aunt as a refugee from the French Revolution, Elisabeth’s life is only made bearable by her cousin Lucy. Despite being given all the advantages of an only child, Lucy cares for Elisabeth like a sister.


     They enjoy a carefree childhood in the Scottish Highlands with their good friend Billy from the local village.


     But everything changes on Elisabeth’s eighteenth birthday.


     She is given a letter which changes her life. Elisabeth discovers she has a twin brother and wants to look for him.


     Her aunt has other ideas. She has high expectations of Lucy, but the best Elisabeth can hope for is to become a governess.


     At the eleventh hour, a suitor appears on the horizon, which resolves Elisabeth’s immediate problem.

     But it is then that Elisabeth’s life takes an unexpected turn. Lucy falls ill and is sent to Switzerland for treatment in a sanatorium close to Elisabeth and Felix’s honeymoon chalet.


     Lucy’s suitor is called to her bedside, despite being in the middle of covert negotiations with Britain’s enemy, France.

    £11.99
  • Castle of Dreams
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    Castle of Dreams
    Louisa Dell

    Penny’s breath caught in her throat as she looked across the room. Even seated with his back to her, there was no mistaking the figure in that cramped chair.

     

    It had been seven years since she had been this close to him. Five of those years had been spent clawing her way out of the abyss he had left her in, a place she thought she might never escape.

     

    But she had made it; she had rebuilt her life, found peace and vowed never to let any man drag her back to that place of despair again.

     

    But now he was back, the question was why and what did his return mean for Penny after everything she had fought so hard to overcome?

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  • The Return of the Wounded Bird
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    The Return of the Wounded Bird
    Moustafa El-Guindy

    Saeed was on the train, yet in a way, he wasn’t. He was out of prison, but part of him was still there. A certain kind of prison gets into the head and never comes out; it burrows into the soul and never lets the sun in. When they open the door and let you out, they know you carry the jail inside you. You become, eternally, a self-prisoner. Saeed was thinking about nothing, watching nothing, hearing nothing. He was as he had learned to be for the last three years: the absent present.

    He couldn’t believe that his beloved mother had gone, and that he hadn’t been able to give her the land he had promised before she died – or that he had, perhaps, brought death to her instead of the land. So many times he had desired to die in jail. They had told him, ‘We will make you desire death; we will make you implore for it.’ And he did. Many times he had asked them to kill him, but they had denied him this, telling him he had no right even to that. It was they, and only they, who decided matters of life and death. The marks of torture were everywhere on his body, but the biggest mark was on his soul. The biggest rupture was inside him, through which everything human had leaked out, leaving him the shadow of a being that once was human.

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  • Neither Foe nor Friend
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    Neither Foe nor Friend
    Allan Johns

    A young woman answers a knock on her door and her whole world begins to fall apart. And from that moment Jarnie, of mixed race, lives in constant fear that the man she loves will discover that she is not the person she was born to be.

    The uninvited caller sets this fast-moving love-story thriller alight with conflicting yet heart-warming racial tensions between Greg, her brother, and Jago, her white lover, in a country of upside-down values. All three become, directly and indirectly, enmeshed in gun-running activities to bring down a racist government. Both are hunted by security forces and though Greg and Jago have opposing views on insurrection, they must work uneasily together against a common adversary who wants them both dead.

    Neither Foe nor Friend is a riveting adventure story with great psychological impact that will make readers pause for moments to ruminate on some scarcely believable true-to-life events.

    £9.99
  • Gaudensia: The Victory of Lust
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    Gaudensia: The Victory of Lust
    Vallerina P

    Lust is like the wind: unpredictable, impulsive, powerful, mocking our will in the face of it. Its force can carry you away, throw you into unknown territories, overpower you, or even destroy you. You can’t subdue it.But you can harness its power, skilfully catching it in your sails.See for yourself how important it is to be a skilled sailor on the sea of your life, where passion drives us, and to be a wise navigator. Only then will your life become an adventure rather than a disaster.The only element that can tame desire is love. This is the story of a group of friends who discover how high a price must sometimes be paid to control passion and preserve love.It is a story that reveals the power of our wild and eternal human nature, which disturbs our hearts, rebels against social rules, and yet remains tender and deeply attractive.The design of the dustjacket uses the painting Women by Richard Czerezderecki.

    £10.99

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