Sue Cook
On Dangerous Ground

It's devastating enough when Pru's husband confesses to a long-term affair over what should have been a romantic dinner to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary. Then when her daughter, Molly, announces she's leaving for Vietnam on a Gap Year project, Pru knows her comfortable family life is over for good. Just as she's picking up the pieces, an email brings news that Molly has become involved with a group of political activists and could be in serious danger. Pru embarks on a desperate search for her recalcitrant daughter. Totally out of her depth, she meets Ben, a veteran of the US war. He's intelligent, handsome, but damaged, and still haunted by the atrocities of that conflict. Together they tackle corrupt police, greedy property dealers and a ruthless local party cadre; and when eventually Pru finds her daughter, she also discovers an inner strength she never knew she had.

Katie Flynn
Beyond The Blue Hills

Laura Collins, a widow, is struggling to make a good life for her daughters, Tess and Tina. They are living with Laura's sister Millie and her seven children, so when Laura is offered a good job, with accommodation, she is delighted. Life is very different for the Brewsters who live on Manor Farm in Herefordshire. Danny and his girlfriend, Sophie, plan to marry one day so that they can run Manor Farm together, but his cousin and best friend, Phil Ryland, feels differently. He longs to get away from farming and intends to escape as soon as he can. Then war comes and changes everything. Tina is evacuated and Tess joins the Land Army. She means to be true to her boyfriend, Mike, but he is far away. Danny and Phil join the RAF, Danny to pilot bombers and Phil as flight engineer. They end up on the same airfield and fall in love with the same girl. But Phil has a secret which could end his chance of happiness, and Danny is the only person who knows what that secret is....

Sophie's marriage was perfect. But now it's all gone wrong. Mark works late; she's left with the baby, domestic drudgery, her own career to keep on the go and a feeling Mark's up to something. When, one night, he fails to come home it's the last straw. She wants a divorce but he doesn't. He hasn't been unfaithful, just thoughtless. Desperate to save his marriage, Mark enrols at the 'School for Husbands', which does what it says on the tin. But will its intensive and unusual tuition be enough to reunite him with Sophie? Especially now an eligible millionaire is after her....