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1955, love at first sight for US Navy man Al Locke and nurse Elin Jenkins. But local events conspire against them. In the present day, Al returns to Wales to find Elin but discovers the village where she lived has been drowned by a reservoir… The Drowned Village is a beautifully written novel about love […]

Kitty Underhay’s fiance Captain Matthew Bryant is informed that he will have a temporary house guest, a witness in a notorious jewel heist. But when Kitty and Matthew arrrive at the station to collect their visitor, they discover his dead body instead. The killer must have been one of the other passengers in the enclosed […]

  Lydia Farnham is an orphan, relying on employment as a governess. But her good looks threaten her reputation as men continually hound her. She accepts a position on a remote Scottish island but there is an instant attraction between her and her employer Alasdair. Is this another role doomed to failure…? A Laird for […]

  Daisy had an open adoption, with her birth mother Mia having regular contact which has slowly dwindled over the years. Now she wants to escape New York and is keeping secrets from her adopted mother Suzanne so travels to Mia unexpectedly… The Child I Never Had is an emotional book about secrets and change, […]

  A teenager is killed by the lake, carefully posed nude with a black orchid. Detective Amanda Steele finds a possible link with an old case but can she catch the killer before he strikes again…? Black Orchid Girls is the fourth book in the Amanda Steele series and I have previously reviewed the other […]