C.C. Humphreys
The Blooding of Jack Absolute

London 1759 and Jack Absolute's life is easy. A scholar at Westminster School, a master with cricket bat or billiard cue, he has both a girl he worships and a courtesan teaching him the ways of the world. Yet he plans to give up all carousing and begin a new life - if he can just stay out of trouble for one night ... After duels, battles, frantic escapes and a brutal winter in a Canadian cave, the schoolboy will vanish and a man appear. To come of age, Jack Absolute must be blooded.

June Thomson
Going Home

After losing his wife to cancer, Alex Lambert feel that he and his profoundly deaf daughter, Charlotte, have found their place in the world, in the peaceful village of Northrop in Essex. But his slice of heaven turns to hell when 14-year-old Charlotte goes missing while walking home from a friend's house. Can he trust DCI Jack Finch and DS Helen Wyatt to catch the right man, or should he take matters into his own hands to ensure revenge?

Founder of the hugely-successful Farmers' and Country Bureau, matchmaker Patricia Warren's story of her life in a stone farmhouse is interwoven with the tales of the ups and downs of her clients. Patricia matched Lucy, looking for love in the remote Falkland Islands, with the man of her dreams. She acted as go-between for the man who was so overcome with shyness that he had admired a lady from afar for eight years. Patricia's stories of rural love prove that although the road can be rocky, it often leads to true love.