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A week­end break changes everything…

The chem­istry between Keira and Noah is instant. It only takes one date for Keira to real­ise there’s some­thing spe­cial between them.

When Noah invites her to a fam­ily party in his homet­own, she eagerly agrees, and by the end of their week­end away she’s abso­lutely head over heels. Not only for Noah, but for his close-knit fam­ily and the stun­ning Isles of Scilly.

There’s just one prob­lem: Noah’s about to move back home and his plans can’t be altered.

It’s too early in their rela­tion­ship to make life chan­ging plans, but if they stand a chance of being togeth­er, one of them is going to have to take a leap of faith.

Can love tri­umph over loc­a­tion? And when fol­low­ing your heart, how far should you go?

She was nev­er meant to fall for her best friend’s brother…

Ser­en has had a soft spot for her best friend’s broth­er for as long as she can remem­ber. But when she starts to see Kit as more than just a friend, she knows she’s on dan­ger­ous ground.

Avoid­ing him is prob­ably her best course of action, but that’s easi­er said than done when you live on a tiny island.

When Kit declares he’s in love with her, she’s forced to deny her feel­ings. There’s too much to lose for her to do any­thing else.

If only her heart would get the mes­sage that she and Kit aren’t meant to be.

As the ten­sion between them builds it becomes more and more dif­fi­cult for Ser­en to keep her feel­ings hidden.

Can she find the cour­age to risk everything for love? And will Kit still be wait­ing for her when she does?

This is the second book in the Isles of Scilly series but can also be enjoyed as a stan­dalone novel.

Some­times facing up to the past is the only way to cre­ate a bet­ter future…

Since the tra­gic death of his fath­er, Lowen Treneary has kept to him­self in his pot­tery stu­dio on the remote island of Bryher.

His quiet life is just the way he likes it.

Until Pippa comes along.

The loc­al café own­er plunges his peace­ful exist­ence into chaos and bright­ens his days while she’s at it.

Soon, he has an employ­ee liven­ing up his work­place with her determ­in­a­tion to make his stu­dio more prof­it­able… and a grow­ing attrac­tion to Pippa which he’s try­ing hard to ignore.

Just as he starts to warm to the idea of let­ting people into his life again, a crisis hits the island, caus­ing old memor­ies to crash to the surface.

Can the events of the present help to heal wounds from the past? And will Pippa still accept Lowen when she learns the secrets he’s been keep­ing from every­one around him?

What hap­pens when you meet the right per­son, at the right time, in the wrong place?

Twenty-two-year-old Leana Mack­en­zie is look­ing for adven­ture. Full of excite­ment, she leaves her home in a remote Scot­tish vil­lage and heads for the bright city lights.

In Edin­burgh she meets Alas­dair – a cute and charm­ing singer/songwriter. As their rela­tion­ship devel­ops everything feels perfect.

But as the sparkle of her new life begins to fade, Leana finds her­self long­ing for her cosy home on the Isle of Skye, and the close-knit fam­ily she left behind.

When Alas­dair is offered the career oppor­tun­ity of a life­time, Leana is left even more con­fused. Now, she must choose between a high-fly­ing life as the girl­friend of a celebrity – or return­ing home to her safe, pre­dict­able life.

Home is where the heart is … but what hap­pens when the heart is pulled in two dif­fer­ent directions?

Some­times the road to hap­pi­ness is longer than we’d like …

At four­teen, Isla Mack­en­zie has her life all planned out. She’s going to be an artist and marry her best friend, Logan.

Logan Don­nell also has a plan. When he grows up he’s going to join his dad’s busi­ness and marry his best friend, Isla.

By the time they’re eight­een, the two of them are insep­ar­able. The future looks bright. Everything feels perfect.

But when tragedy strikes, fate sets the pair on a dif­fer­ent course.

While cir­cum­stances keep Logan and Isla apart, their bond is not so eas­ily broken.

The course of true love might not run smoothly but a bumpy road can still take you exactly where you’re sup­posed to be …

A hol­i­day fling threw her life into chaos …

Elspeth Mack­en­zie hasn’t had any con­tact with the fath­er of her child since they had a fling three years ago. Get­ting preg­nant at six­teen turned her life upside down. But now she has everything back under con­trol. She’s man­aging a cafe and a tod­dler and mak­ing it look easy.

If only dat­ing was as easy. Most guys run a mile when they find out she has a child.

When her friend sets her up on a blind date, Elspeth is in for a huge sur­prise. Not only because she finds her­self face to face with the fath­er of her child, but because her feel­ings for Rory haven’t changed a bit. The attrac­tion is as intense as ever.

Now Elspeth must tell Rory she has a child. And that sweet little Arran is also his child.

Yet again, her life is thrown off bal­ance. Work­ing out how to co-par­ent Arran is about as com­plic­ated as her feel­ings for Rory.

For Elspeth to fig­ure out what the future holds, she first needs to come to terms with the choices she made in the past…

It takes cour­age to open up about the past…

For years Lex­ie has kept every­one at arm’s length. Her heart is so guarded it’s almost impenetrable.

Until Nick.

When the geeky teach­er moves in next door, Lex­ie finds it increas­ingly dif­fi­cult to ignore her attrac­tion to him. To pro­tect her­self, she pushes him away, con­vin­cing her­self that hurt­ing him isn’t a big deal.

She nev­er ima­gined him leav­ing town. Or how much she’d miss him when he left.

Des­per­ate to make amends, she fol­lows him to his homet­own, determ­ined to do whatever it takes to earn his forgiveness.

Even if that means shar­ing her deep­est secrets.

As she opens up to Nick, she begins to ima­gine a future she’d nev­er dared dream of. Now all she has to do is let her guard down and take a chance on love …

Some­times all we can do is hope things will turn out exactly as they’re sup­posed to … 

A fairy-tale wed­ding in a castle should be a dream come true for Isla. Unfor­tu­nately, she’s not as taken with the idea as every­one around her. While her fam­ily and Logan organ­ise everything, she’s left feel­ing that her opin­ion doesn’t count.

Mean­while, Lex­ie is deal­ing with fam­ily prob­lems of her own. Her dad doesn’t approve of her rela­tion­ship with Nick and is determ­ined to cause prob­lems for the two of them.

Elspeth finally has everything she wants: Rory has moved to Skye and they’re liv­ing togeth­er as a prop­er fam­ily. But is that enough for her? Throw­ing her­self into a new busi­ness ven­ture stirs up prob­lems in her rela­tion­ship. Can she find a way to fix them? Does she even want to?

When noth­ing seems to go to plan, maybe the best thing to do is embrace the unex­pec­ted and hope that everything will be okay in the end …

How long does it take to mend a broken heart?

Jess expects life on the Isle of Skye to be calm and peace­ful. But when she falls for her col­league things quickly become com­plic­ated. Rory comes with a whole load of bag­gage, but she just can’t seem to stay away from him.

When Elspeth is forced to take a break from work, she eval­u­ates what her future holds. As her rela­tion­ship with Rory begins to feel irre­par­able, they’re forced to admit it might be time to move on.

Leana’s trip to Amer­ica should be a relax­ing, romantic get­away. Instead, she learns that she and Alas­dair have dif­fer­ent ideas about their future. While he extends his trip, Leana travels home alone and reflects on what’s truly import­ant to her.

Some­times it takes almost los­ing the one we love to make us real­ise what we really want …

The sum­mer that changed everything…

Liz­zie Beau­mont has it all: a great career, a wealthy fiancé, and the wed­ding of her dreams just months away. But when her fiancé puts work before her again, she sets off for a week in the pic­tur­esque town of Hope Cove. She’s hop­ing for time away from the chaos to find herself.

Instead, she finds Max.

When the gor­geous guy next door asks her for dec­or­at­ing help, Liz­zie finds her­self all too eager to please. The week she expec­ted to drag sud­denly flies by, and before she knows it, she has to return to her oth­er life. The life with the impend­ing mar­riage and the fiancé she loves.

Or does she?

One week with Max has left her ques­tion­ing her life choices. Is her fiancé the man of her dreams, or just the man who asked? Now Liz­zie must decide what her life will be. Will she go for the safe and pre­dict­able route, or take a chance on a man she hardly knows? No mat­ter what she does, someone’s heart is going to break. She just doesn’t want it to be hers.

Vil­lage life is sup­posed to be quiet…

Josie Beau­mont is a free spir­it. She changes jobs about as often as she changes her rela­tion­ship status. Fre­quently! The only con­stants in her life are the com­fy old shoes that she refuses to part with.

When unem­ploy­ment looms again, she’s intrigued by a job oppor­tun­ity at a dog ken­nels in rur­al Devon. As someone who thrives on change, a move to the sticks doesn’t faze her at all. She’s expect­ing life in the coun­try to be quiet and uneventful.

What she’s not expect­ing is Sam.

The charm­ing, sens­it­ive neigh­bour makes life much more inter­est­ing. In fact, when she gets involved in the loc­al com­munity, things really aren’t as dull as she anti­cip­ated. But just when she finally feels settled, she’s offered the job of her dreams back in Lon­don. It’s time to move on.

Or is it?

Being part of a small com­munity has stirred some­thing in Josie and she begins to ques­tion what she really wants. Can she turn her back on her new life and say good­bye to Sam? Or is she ready to hang up her run­ning shoes and stay put? Maybe she’s finally found some­thing worth stick­ing around for…

Rumours travel fast in a village…

Josie loves her new life in the coun­try with Sam. But she has a secret that she doesn’t want any­one to know. Unfor­tu­nately, it’s hard to keep any­thing to your­self in a tiny village.

Liz­zie is adjust­ing to moth­er­hood, and find­ing it more demand­ing than she ever expec­ted. Life has become a haze of sleep depriva­tion and dirty nap­pies, and it’s tak­ing its toll on her rela­tion­ship with Max.

Emily has finally got the man of her dreams. How­ever, life with Jack isn’t as straight­for­ward as she expec­ted. A cer­tain ex-girl­friend and money wor­ries wreak hav­oc on their relationship.

As the three couples reunite in the peace­ful Devon scenery, what bet­ter place to catch up than the loc­al pub? There are laughs, tears and rumours aplenty.

But one thing soon becomes clear: you shouldn’t believe everything you hear at the Blue­bell Inn…

One shock­ing incid­ent forces six friends to re-eval­u­ate everything

Emily only meant to spend a week in Hope Cove. But when the quirky loc­als involve her in vari­ous events, she hap­pily extends her stay. She just wishes Jack were with her and not stuck work­ing back in Oxford.

For Liz­zie, Emily’s vis­it is well timed. She’s strug­gling to bal­ance work and fam­ily life, and hav­ing her friend nearby is exactly the breath of fresh air she needs.

Josie has every­one wor­ried. She’s try­ing her best to stay upbeat but after two failed preg­nan­cies, she’s def­in­itely lost some of her sparkle.

When dis­aster strikes, the three couples reunite round a hos­pit­al bed. As their lives are thrown into per­spect­ive, they’re forced to take stock. And look to the future.

Some­times, it takes a twist of fate to make you appre­ci­ate what you’ve got and fight for your dreams …

All Emily wants for her wed­ding is a low-key cel­eb­ra­tion with fam­ily and friends. But with a best friend like Josie, it’s no sur­prise that there’s a touch of drama to the day.

Mean­while, Tara is deal­ing with prob­lems of her own. In a bid to face up to her past, she sets out to make amends with her estranged fath­er and reunite with her half sib­lings. Thank­fully she has James to sup­port her when times get tough.

For Liz­zie, a career oppor­tun­ity feels like a dream come true. But her excite­ment is thwarted when Max announces a dif­fer­ent vis­ion for their future.

As the friends come togeth­er to cel­eb­rate the start of a new year, there’s laughter, love and baked goods aplenty. What more could any­one wish for?

Three years of mar­riage, then they’ll go their sep­ar­ate ways…

Scar­lett Mer­cer dreams of start­ing her own pub­lish­ing com­pany. But with no way to fin­ance uni­ver­sity, she might be stuck work­ing in her aunt’s café indefinitely.

When a chance encounter leads her to an extreme solu­tion, she’s des­per­ate enough to go through with it. Even if it means mar­ry­ing a guy she’s only just met.

What she doesn’t factor into her plans is how eas­ily she gets over­whelmed. Soon, she’s strug­gling to nav­ig­ate uni­ver­sity life while liv­ing with a guy she barely knows.

Mean­while, Fraser Gra­ham is try­ing to fig­ure out what it is about Scar­lett that mes­mer­ised him so much that he agreed to marry her.

When he real­ises what it is that makes her so dif­fer­ent to any­one he’s ever met, the rev­el­a­tion leaves him reeling …

Will Scar­lett man­age to ful­fil her dreams? And as sparks begin to fly, will their mar­riage end up being more than just convenient?

Final­ist in The Wish­ing Shelf Inde­pend­ent Book Awards 2015!

Find­ing new friends shouldn’t be so difficult…

When newly single Mar­ie decides to shake up her social life she knows exactly what she wants: styl­ish, soph­ist­ic­ated friends and no romantic complications.

But a chance encounter brings some unlikely char­ac­ters into her life, throw­ing her plans way off course. She just can’t seem to get rid of this bunch of misfits!

And then there’s Bri­an, whose good looks and charm might just dis­tract Mar­ie from her ideas about stay­ing single…

This won­der­fully quirky Brit­ish rom com is sure to leave you smiling.

All she wants for Christ­mas is for every­one to stop talk­ing weddings!

Things are nev­er simple in Marie’s life, and plan­ning her wed­ding is no excep­tion. Every­one has an opin­ion! And since she’s reluct­antly agreed to host Christ­mas for her quirky friends and fam­ily, Mar­ie doesn’t have time to think about the wedding.

Jug­gling her friends’ bizarre demands for Christ­mas Day starts to feel like a full-time job, and pulling off the per­fect Christ­mas din­ner seems like mis­sion impossible. On top of all that she has to worry about the spe­cial ingredi­ents in her mum’s cheesecake!

Join Mar­ie and her mis­fit friends for a hil­ari­ous and heart-warm­ing Christmas.

There’s noth­ing quite like a baby to turn your world upside down …

Just when it seems things can’t get any cra­zi­er, Mar­ie and Bri­an are now nav­ig­at­ing the ups and downs of parenthood!

As Mar­ie is thrown into the world of play­groups and sleep depriva­tion, she finds mater­nity leave isn’t quite the year-long break she anti­cip­ated. Why can’t she find like-minded mums to drink wine with on a Fri­day after­noon? How come all the oth­er par­ents know exactly what they’re doing while she’s just winging it?

She’s so pre­oc­cu­pied with fig­ur­ing out the par­ent­ing gig, Mar­ie hasn’t real­ised that her fat club friends are strug­gling with prob­lems of their own.

With so much going on, can she still find a way to be there for her friends?

Maybe if she opens up to them, they can help her too. After all, that’s what friends are for …

Red Rib­bon Win­ner, Wish­ing Shelf Awards 2016

Don’t believe everything you see in the media…

Twenty-six-year-old Lucy Mitchell isn’t the sort of per­son who’d take part in a real­ity TV show. But when she loses her job and is offered a free trip to Spain, it sounds too good to pass up.

Yes, she’s being filmed for a TV show, but it’s on a beau­ti­ful Span­ish island. What’s the worst that can happen?

Sur­pris­ingly, her little hol­i­day couldn’t be any more per­fect; she makes fant­ast­ic new friends and even indulges in a behind-the-scenes romance with a hunky cameraman.

Then everything begins to unravel and she finds her week in the sun may in fact come at a very high price.

One sense­less tragedy; one fam­ily torn apart…

Per­fect couple Lucy and Adam have it all: a home in the pic­tur­esque vil­lage of Hav­endon, bud­ding careers and a spark­ling future. Life is exactly as it should be.

But when tragedy strikes and Adam becomes the guard­i­an to his two young nieces, their idyll­ic life is turned upside down.

Adam and Lucy’s rela­tion­ship is about to be pushed to the lim­it. And this dev­ast­ated fam­ily must find a way to pull togeth­er in the most test­ing of times…

Final­ist in The Wish­ing Shelf Book Awards 2017

Love and loss in the Aus­trali­an Outback…

Twenty-one-year-old Libby Taylor needs a change of scene. Strug­gling to deal with the death of her moth­er, she becomes fix­ated on an old photo album. In par­tic­u­lar, pic­tures of the man she believes to be her fath­er. Unable to ignore the nig­gling ques­tions any longer, she sets off to Aus­tralia in search of answers.

Soon, she’s trav­el­ling the same route her mum trav­elled more than twenty years earli­er. As she relaxes into the lively back­pack­er scene, thoughts of find­ing her fath­er begin to fade. Maybe all she needed was a break from real­ity. She nev­er expec­ted to have such an amaz­ing time.

She also didn’t expect to find love.

But when her path crosses repeatedly with the lovely Andrew, sparks begin to fly. With his encour­age­ment, she decides to con­tin­ue the search for her father.

Finally, in a dusty out­back town, she dis­cov­ers the famil­i­ar faces from the pho­to­graphs. As the past begins to unfold, Libby learns the heart­break­ing truth about her fath­er, and the secret her mum kept for more than twenty years.

A heart-warm­ing story of love, loss and friendship.