Sara Banerji
The Waiting Time

Julia has given up on love in her middle age but is searching for a vanished brother and a lost identity. In doing so, she collides with Kitty, a woman of a different age, lifestyle and aspirations.The proof of Julia's identity lies somewhere under Kitty's home.The literal digging up of the past changes life for both of them, though what they eventually find is very different to their expectations.

Maeve Haran
Soft Touch

Catherine Hope can control her class of 30 noisy school children, but trying to keep her 17-year-old daughter on track for A Levels, that's a different matter. Rachel, usually studious and submissive, is suddenly ripe for rebellion.The reason? Marko: sexy, sultry, countryside campaigner, who's out to save a threatened woodland from destruction.The woodland is on the doorstep of Lavinia, Rachel's conventional, disapproving grandmotherAs the protest erupts friendships are severed, loyalties divided - and Lavinia proves to have hidden passions of her own!

Ray Greenland is an exemplary family man, a Thames River pilot who guides others to safety, while his wife Lily, runs a dating agency, navigating others to happy futures.What none of those around him know, including Lily and their children, is that Ray's life is not his own.An act committed when he was twelve has meant that Ray must live under a false identity for the rest of his life. He's only safe on the lower reaches of the Thames, but it is on land where his past resurfaces - and a lifetime of caution may not be enough to save him.