Ulverscroft large print series: romance

Lucia didn't like and didn't trust her sister's boyfriend Nicholas Curzon from the first moment she met him -- and it was with much misgiving that she agreed to accompany the pair of them on a holiday to Greece. But as her distrust of Nicholas increased, so, alas, did her unwilling attraction to him . .

On holiday in Portugal, to take their daughter’s mind off a troubled love affair, the Channing family are befriended by the hospitable Baronesa Narvao—but soon find her hospitality something of an embarrassment. (

It was sheer accident — she'd stowed away in the wrong car — that had brought Julia to Adam Dare's sheep farm in New Zealand's South Island, and wrecked his engagement as a result; his suspicious fiancée Miriam refused to believe that he had never set eyes on Julia before, and flounced off leaving him to cope with the farm and his brother's children into the bargain. Julia felt that the least she could do was to stay on for a few days to help with the house and the children. She also felt that it was her duty to try and repair the damage she had caused — but was that what she really wanted? For she soon found herself becoming deeply attached to Adam's nieces and nephew, to his delightful grandparents — and to Adam himself. Could she bear to hand it all back to Miriam?

Working for Conrad Ravensburg, the smooth, celebrated and successful author, has brought Josephine a career as satisfying as it is varied and exciting. It had been worth breaking an engagement four years ago in order to become the increasingly invaluable right-hand of this grand old man of letters. She had travelled the world and gained poise and assurance in his shadow. And as far as Mike Wexford was concerned four years is surely time enough for healing. So when Josephine meets her former fiance again she faces the shutters of bitter hostility Mike raises against her with surprise and dismay. It is also more than a little embarrassing, as they have many good friends in common and avoiding encounters is difficult. But beyond the social embarrassment, there is real hurt. Determined to set the record straight, Josephine probes into the four year past and is shattered to find her charming employer has a streak of ruthless self-interest in his dealings with other people to which she has been blind for too long. But once aware of the facts, Josephine sets out to remedy a situation in a manner which takes courage and at the same time becomes a quest for the paths of summer past.

It seemed as if fate had conveniently thrown Antonia Mendyp and Pierre Valais together. Antonia was recovering from a frustrated love-affair and a succession of unsatisfactory jobs; Pierre was haunted by the death of his beautiful, talented young wife Claire. Two lonely, unhappy people, they found comfort and relief in each other's friendship. And Antonia did not let Pierre see how deeply she was falling in love with him. When eventually he proposed to her it seemed as if a shining dream had come true. But the past was not to be forgotten so easily. Pierre's involvement with music, the world he had known with Claire, soon threatened to isolate Antonia altogether. Would she ever take Claire's place in his heart? Or would the ghost of the past destroy her new-found happiness forever.

A Vibrant Novel About the Joys of Life ... and The Pangs of Love Love had come to David for the first time, glorious, overwhelming, passionate. It was far greater and far more lovely than he had ever dreamed possible. And it was returned in full measure, with equal passion. But he could not take her without pain--pain for himself, for her, for his beloved family. Lucilla has spent a lifetime making the Hampshire estate of Damerosehay a tranquil haven for the Eliot family. When her favourite grandson, David, falls in love with an unsuitable woman Lucilla feels is unsuitable, she sees her most cherished ambitions put at risk. But can she persuade David and Nadine to put duty before love? At last, in the magical peace of the countryside, watched over by a benevolent old house that had nourished so much love, they knew the path their hearts must take....

Charlotte was worried to death about her cousin Phyl. She was already aware that Phyl had something on her mind and was going out to New Zealand to find out what it was all about. But by the time she arrived things had taken a new turn - Phyl had run away from home with another man, leaving her three children, and her husband Owen, setting off after her, had crashed his car and was seriously ill in hospital. A pretty kettle of fish! Charlotte just couldn’t believe that Phyl could behave in such a way - although meanwhile a forbidding brother-in-law, Edmund Leigh, had arrived on the scene and was clearly only too ready to believe the worst, and to tar this unknown English cousin with the same brush. So Charlotte set about solving the mystery, without letting Edmund realize who she was.