Small Town & Rural

A brand new cozy mystery to escape with this Halloween. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Rev Richard Coles. It’s (almost) Halloween in Penstowan, and strange things are afoot… When a developer buys the abandoned convent and cottage hospital of St Ann’s on the edge of town, locals are...

Oihane swore she'd never return to Urrun. But when her father is shot in a supposed hunting accident, she has no choice but to go back to the remote rural hamlet she once fled. The place hasn't changed: the people are hostile, violent, and bound by silence. Neither has her father been the only victim. As Oihane digs into what really happened that day in the woods, she's met with a wall of secrets. No one will talk. Everyone has something to hide. And the deeper she probes, the more she realizes the shooting was no accident at all.

I came to Fire Lake to outrun my past. A broken-down car, an empty wallet and one loyal dog — that’s all I had when I stumbled into this small town I didn’t plan to stay in. Then I met Gus. Ex–Navy SEAL. Carpenter. Six-foot-five of trouble wrapped in muscle and quiet control. He’s the kind of man who can fix anything — except whatever’s broken inside him. I tell myself I don’t care. But every time his gaze finds mine, my resolve cracks a little more. His touch scorches. His kiss tastes like danger. And when he says my name, I forget every reason I ever had to run.

It’s autumn and with crisp frosty weather and the leaves as colourful as they've ever been, Olivia and Jago are nestling into their life in Penbartha. Until local resentment about incomers and second home ownership is ignited by what seems to be an increasingly militant action group. A violent death makes the situation even more sinister. Maybe Penbartha isn't the happy place Olivia thought it was? Is the discontent really about second homes or is someone exploiting a well-supported cause in order to pursue a much more personal agenda?

The next BRAND NEW nostalgic, feel-good novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Gervase Phinn. 'Gervase Phinn has a unique understanding of children and a glorious sense of humour which make his books much loved best sellers. I’m a huge fan.' Esther Rantzen Yorkshire, 1956. When Helen...

I survived jail. One night with a gorgeous stranger wasn’t supposed to be the hard part. But Rowan Wilder is a force to be reckoned with. A five-foot-nothing storm cloud in combat boots who marches toward men twice her size with nothing but a baseball bat and a sharp mouth. She’s the first woman to get under my skin...and the last one I should be touching.

Hunter Calloway is a small town smokeshow and the kind of man my father warned me about. He's got a reputation a mile wide, a smile that could burn through any girl's good sense, and did I mention he's also the man my sister once loved and left behind? He strolls through town like he owns it...

Welcome to Freezy Tye – voted Britain’s Most Christmassy Village seven years in a row. Best friends since university, Keeley and Grace first bonded over their love of nineteenth century romance classics, but life has taken them in different directions. While Keeley became the top curator at...

The next BRAND NEW instalment in Kate Eastham's absorbing and uplifting Diary of a Country Nurse series. Fans of Call the Midwife, Donna Douglas and All Creatures Great and Small will love this. ‘Authentic... the mixture of nursing and farming life is both warming and true. I liked this a lot...

Clara Forbes had it all — until she didn't. Locked out of her Park Avenue inheritance, scraping by on gig work in a city that once bowed to her name, Clara needs one thing: a husband. Enter Troy Templeton, the former help’s son. Now a billionaire mogul, he’s never forgiven her for what...

At their twenty-fifth high school reunion, four former best friends discover that growing up is way messier than anticipated—and the past isn’t nearly as finished as they thought. Back in senior year, Audrey, Micah, Jasmine and Beck were the Core Four: the lucky one, the beautiful one, the...

I was hired to destroy her. I did. Then I fell in love with her. I'm Mason Brooks, and this is my story. When powerful men have problems, they call me. I'm a morally flexible fixer—the best in the business. Taya Morningstar is a problem I've been hired to handle. She's a lawyer with a savior...

Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss Sparling seems to be the perfect headmistress: she dresses as a headmistress should and is an...

Matthew Bailey has it all. At least, he appears to, if you don't look too close. Fast cars. Faster women. Thousands of online followers, hanging on his every word. So what if the cars are rented? So what if the women don't stay? So what if he's drowning in debt and one step ahead of disaster?...

'Left me with a big smile and that lovely warm feeling you get when you finish a really special book' ★★★★★ Warm, witty and deeply moving, The Friendship Circle is a story about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the magic that finds us when we're finally ready to believe in it...

Welcome to Port Berry, where love is just around the corner. Sophie Moore has sworn off men. Ever since her ex-boyfriend ran off with her now ex-friend. Matt Rose has arrived in Port Berry with no money or place to stay. He's running from a troubled past and looking for a fresh start. Sophie, hearing Matt will be sleeping on the fishing boat, offers him a place to stay at her home Cockle Cottage.

A bestseller upon its publication, The Home-Maker is about an ordinary family in New England – with a twist. Deeply felt, wonderfully observed, the novel interrogates the absurdly rigid, gendered parenting expectations many still face today. Above all, it is a tender portrait of love...

Could this Christmas bring a fresh start? It's not that Jen hates Christmas. It's just that she would be quite happy letting December slip by without so much as a flicker of a fairy light. But when her friends surprise her with a weekend away, fate has other plans... and soon Jen finds herself...

THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER “A small-town nightmare straight out of Ray Bradbury country...with a dark dash of Thomas Harris’s The Silence of the Lambs.” —STEPHEN KING The terrifying horror trilogy finale to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling series that includes Chasing the...

Silas Six weeks off the ice for a shoulder injury-bearable. Six weeks back at Blue River Ranch to recover-agonizing. I traded my boots for skates a long time ago and never looked back. Not even at Storm Dalton. The girl I spent summers causing trouble with. Now, she's working on my family's...

Six years ago, I kissed my brother's best friend. He thinks I don't remember, but I do… Roman is my kryptonite. Ocean eyes, lonely heart, and a nasty habit of saving my ass. But I'm done needing my ass saved. Or so I thought... The plan: Return to my hometown. Open a coffee shop. Avoid Roman...

An FBI agent and a small town full of holiday hijinks help a woman in peril in this charming romance from the author of 10 Things I Hate About Mistletoe. For two years, Kaylee Kringle didn't stop moving—but then she happened upon Holiday, Idaho. The residents of her new hideout welcomed her...

I've never been a "good girl." I've never even known what it meant. Truthfully… I don't care to. My identifier? The brat. The whore. The spoiled little sister. The waste of life. The half-breed daughter of a fallen king, in a kingdom that was a joke to begin with. In my young life, nobody ever...

A wounded soldier. A devoted fisherman. A love lost to memory and yet… "There's nothing about you I don't want." Boyhood best friends. Closer than brothers until one night changed everything. And then it was gone. Jack doesn't remember. Sol can't forget. Now they share a life in Porth Luck...

Read by award-winning narrator Andi Arndt! Her narration brings the cozy atmosphere of the Honeycrisp Orchard Inn to life. For fans of the Lovelight series and The Christmas Tree Farm, this cozy Christmas romance follows an overworked publicist who is snowed in at the Honeycrisp Orchard Inn with...