Lucy Dillon
The Ballroom Class

After a lifetime of dancing and a failed marriage, Angelica's running away again. But this time, she's run right back to where it all started. In a last attempt to save their marriage, Katie and Ross join the ballroom class. He needs to learn to lead, and she needs to learn to love again. Laurel's dreaming of a fairytale wedding. The only problem is that neither she nor her future husband know the right steps for the first dance. Bridget and Frank would love Lauren to have a marriage as happy as theirs. But Bridget's got a secret that could shatter their enviable partnership on the dance floor. For all of them it's time to face the music and dance, as the magic of their local ballroom weaves a spell that will change their lives.

John Drake
Flint and Silver

Before it was Treasure Island, it was Captain Flint's island ... John Silver had never killed a man. Until now, charisma, sheer size and, when all else failed, a powerful pair of fists, had been enough to see off his enemies. But on a smouldering deck off the coast of Madagascar, his cutlass has just claimed the lives of six pirates. With their comrades intent on revenge, Silver's promising career in the merchant navy looks set to come to an end - until the pirate captain makes him an offer he can't refuse. On the other side of the world Joseph Flint, a naval officer wronged by his superiors, plots a bloody mutiny. Handsome, brilliant, but prey to sadistic tendencies, the path Flint has chosen will lead him to Silver.

Reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street - except, perhaps, to comment on his carefully sculpted comb­over - but beneath his unprepossessing exterior lies a warm heart and a secret passion. Not even his friends at the Asadi Club know it, but Mr Malik is head-over-heels in love with the leader of the Tuesday-morning bird walk of the East African Ornithological Society, Rose Mbikwa. While Mr Malik hesitantly plans how he will ask Rose to the annual Hunt Ball, flashy Harry Khan arrives in town and makes it clear that he too has Rose in his sights. When Mr Malik blurts out his feelings at the club, a wager is set - whoever sees the most different birds in a week will ask Rose to the ball.