Mary Howard

It was not for herself that Janey was ambitious. It was for Duncan. She believed that he was a great actor, and worked hard at making him a celebrity and being a celebrity's wife, but Duncan as a man was neglected and ripe for trouble. His new leading lady was Leonie Martine; and what Leonie wanted, she took....

Lorna has taken a job in town. Jack, a friend of her brother's, suggests she move into the boarding house in which he lives. Lorna's married boss begins an affair with her. Soon Lorna's life is getting out of control.

Three women, different in age, class and background, are brought together in a small English village by World War II. To June Lambert, the war brings motherhood, passion and danger. Lorna Sharpness finds deeom true friendship - and tragedy . And Freda Vascart discovers that love means more than family or wealth. In these women, their husbands, children and lovers, the home-based war that every woman remembers so well is made poignantly vivid.

In this tender, lyrical and uplifting debut, Tishani Doshi, a prizewinning poet, effortlessly captures the quirks and calamities of one unusual clan in a story of identity, family, belonging and all-transcending love.

An young Englishwoman, dutiful daughter of an irresponsible father, was tempted to marry for security, with a man she does not love. Determined to live life to the fullest, she finds what she is dreaming of in the arms of an unconventional and provocative R.A.F. officer on leave in Egypt.

As she drew nearer the great hall, Sarah fought back the fear and dark memories that had made her a stranger at its gates. Six years ago she had been a baronet's daughter, and this had been her home, but her father Sir Gore Sefton, has left everything to his brother. Now, sixteen and fatherless, she was an actress begging her aunt, Lady Sefton, to take herself and her mother back into the family. But Lady Sefton rejects her appeal. Her aunt drove Sarah away with the bitter words that she was not a Sefton, and worse, that her true father was unknown. Cruelly hurt, Sarah vowed there would come a day of reckoning - when Lady Sefton would be humbled and Sarah would again rule her ancestral mansion.

May Ireton was a regal Nordic beauty, but her position as governess at the magnificent Wildersley estate was humble. Passionate, red-haired Belle Milthrope - ward of the estate's owners - attracted the attentions of countless noblemen. Yer Wildersley's young master, the widower Sir Josiah, was increasingly drawn to May. And Belle seethed with jealousy. As the turmoil in the household increased, the strange death of Josiah's wife haunted May. She would have to confront the dangerously angry Belle, or be forever scarred by the dread mystery of Wildersley's tragic past!

They belonged to different worlds; Jim's background was the industrial North, and Janet was a girl from his own class, but Tessa came from the romantic world of ballet. What change would the spotlight make in the Tessa's young life? Was it love that chained Tessa to the exotic world of ballet?

From London to the pyramids a dangerous love made it demands. A young woman who follows her employer to Egypt and who falls helplessly in love with him.

For the first time, Barbara Crossdyke knew the naked power of passion when the fiery young Spaniard, Ramon Ramirez, declared his love and demanded she be his wife. But before the marriage, Barbara had to leave England to meet the aristocratic Ramirez amily in the lusty, brawling city of Barcelona. It was only when Barbara arried, and watched the ship that was her sole link with home disappearing over the horizon, that her misgivings began. The young heiress had been drawn there by passion, but now she was held in the tightening grip of fear. She was being used as a pawn in a diabolical game - and she knew she had only her own beauty and daringto protect her against a man she loved but could not trust, in a land where lies were easy and life was cheap.

Justin made her feel all woman... Liza unaware of Roddy's love for her, married someone else - but she discovered that she didn't really know her husband as well as she thought she did….

Victorian Era. The ancien manor above the lake was beautiful to look upon, wreathed in the splendor of the Italian Alps. A place of dreams it seemed - where an innocent and romantic girl could find her dream of bliss. Slowly Florence Farmetto was forced to wake from that dream - to a reality worse than a nightmare. Only gradually did she begin to have suspicions about the handsome, strong, yet strangely secretive man who had won her heart. Inexorably within her the seeds of terror began to send forth icy tendrils, chilling her blood, numbing her mind, bringing a cry of fear to her throat. But there was no one to hear her, no one to help her - and nowhere she could flee.... She had been dawn to this place of evil by love. She was kept captive by a faceless horror...