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Ben Spencer is the ambitious young owner of The Blood Partnership, an online property marketing company. He has become heavily involved with the Westlake family - including becoming engaged to beautiful Caitlin Westlake - and now he's beginning to regret it. Then Ben's own family is targeted by the Westlakes. Now he must choose a side and it seems the only way out is death - but whose will it be?

It is AD 43. Aoife has just escaped slavery in Rome. Now she has a dream: to return to her homeland, Britannia. But Aoife is valuble. Her uncle leads the British rebellion against Rome, and the Emperor himself wants her as a hostage. As the Roman army prepares to set sail to crush the rebellion, Aoife finds herself alone among enemies.

The war, with its horrifying, endless slaughter on the Western Front, is the backdrop to this story of the conflicting demands of duty, loyalty and love. Dolly Weston, her husband reported missing, falls in love with a wounded army officer. To complicate things further, a deserter emerges, and unhealed wounds from a bitter past are re-opened. And then there is 10- year- old Joshua, drawn into the world of three people whom he comes to admire and love, but who are destined to be driven cruelly apart.

"But it was Mum!" Eric tells Lizzie. "I saw her...." At first, Lizzie thinks it's just one of her little brother's stories. Their mother's dead: there's no way she could be working in the gift shop at the Natural History Museum. But what if Eric's right? If there's a mystery at the heart of Lizzie's family she wants to solve it.

Set in London and Tuscany, Someone Wonderful casts a magical net around the lives of six people: Grace Teape; her orphaned niece, Lily; her young lover, sculptor Johnny Cochrane; her photographer brother, Oliver Cary; his journalist wife, Melissa; and their blind son, Sebastian. With irony, elegance, and insight, Barbara Neil explores the limits of our capacity to protect our own in this joyous and heartbreaking novel.

When Amy Marsham walks into his smart Harley Street practice, therapist Patrick McIIhenny knows that this will be no ordinary session. For Amy needs answers. In the calm of Patrick's office, they begin to untangle the events of one fateful week 10 years earlier: a week of infatuation and friendships pushed to breaking point: a week in which Amy's life changed forever.

A new life in Wales has not turned out to be the rural fantasy that social worker Jess imagined when she left London for a simpler, more fulfilling future. And it seems there's no escape from evil - even in such a beautiful landscape.

1910 and Corley Roper, an eminent children's author mourns the death of his young daughter. Estranged from his wife, and wracked by grief, he happens one night upon Mary Wilson's, a woman mourning the stillbirth of her son.