Phillipa Gregory
Wildacre

Wideacre Hall, set in the heart of the English countryside, is the Laceys' ancestral home and no one could love it more than Beatrice, the passionate, beautiful daughter of the house. Her need for Wideacre is an obsession and she will contemplate anything - even incest and murder - to possess it. But, as a woman in England in the 1770s, Beatrice has no right to the property. Using her wits and her beauty, she manages to ensnare her brother and dominate the estate. Yet even as her brilliant scheming succeeds, Beatrice is haunted by the one person alive who fully understands her obsession and knows her capacity for evil...

Audrey Howard
A Time Like No Other

Lally Fraser, widowed at just 20, seeks comfort with dashing young mill owner Roly Sinclair. When he leaves for America and she finds she is expecting his baby, Lally turns to his dour brother Harry for help. Secretly in love with her, Harry offers to marry her and save her from life as an outcast. But a marriage founded on lies can only lead to heartbreak and Roly is not pleased when he returns. Threatening scandal or worse, he sets out to destroy them both. And when Harry is injured in a vicious attack, Lally must take charge of the mills to protect her children and the man she is growing to love from his worst enemy - his own brother....

Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. But how could anyone lure two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness? Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters. But her involuntary admission and subsequent attempt to stonewall investigators only deepens the mystery. Where has she been? Why has she waited so long to come forward? There is only one person who dares to be sceptical of a woman who wants to claim the identity of one Bethany sister without revealing the fate of the other. Will he be able to discover the truth?