Bantam Press Christmas at the Keep Willett Marcia

The explosive new thriller featuring Nick Stone • A sinister cult • Tasked with rescuing the daughter of one of America's richest families from the grips of a sinister cult, Nick Stone expects his latest mission to be quick and straightforward • A kidnapped woman • Travelling to the frozen depths of the Norway/Russia border, the dividing line between NATO and the Kremlin's armed forces, it seems all he and his team need do is abduct the woman and deliver her home alive • An agent whose time is running out • But there are deadly complications - not least that Nick soon discovers himself at the heart of a chilling cyber conspiracy that threatens war with Russia and the very existence of the Western alliance . . . and that following a shocking diagnosis his body is failing him fast, and any day now he will have to ask himself the ultimate question

This Christmas will be the most special of them all • Elderly widow Sabine knows this will be her last Christmas in her beloved home, Mitras Castle. Determined to make it just like the ones she remembers from her childhood, she employs Dido Jones of Heavenly Houseparties to help with the big day • Dido is enchanted by the castle as soon as she steps through the imposing front door. And as Christmas day approaches, her feeling of connection to the old house runs deeper than she first thought • But when the snow begins to fall and Sabine's family arrive at the house - including Dido's teenage crush Xan - tensions rise around the castle's future and long-buried mysteries begin to unravel • As past secrets come to light, can this still be a magical Christmas to remember?

Evie loved the house. The bright, sunny rooms looking across the river. The terraced gardens with fruit trees growing against the high stone walls. The scent of lavender at the end of a hot day • It was a family house • As summer beckons, Evie’s family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together • For Charlie, a visit home to see stepmother Evie is an escape from his unhappy marriage in London. Until a chance encounter changes everything: in the space of a moment, he meets a woman by the river, falls in love, and his two worlds collide • As Evie and Charlie struggle to keep their secrets safe, they long for the summer to never end

Can you ever escape your family ties? • Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. Their lives are uncomplicated. With family and friends nearby and their free and easy living arrangements, life seems as content as can be • But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred. Why is he contacting them now? And what has he been hiding all these years? • The heartwarming and captivating new novel from favourite author Marcia Willett - perfect for fans of Erica James, Santa Montefiore and Victoria Hislop

Все любят Рождество • Особенно Лиззи Кингхэм. Но в этом году ей кажется, что родные её не любят и не ценят. Они взвалили на неё закупку подарков, украшений и еды к празднику. И Лиззи задаётся вопросом: а что будет, если она исчезнет и заставит их разбираться с этими делами самостоятельно? • И вот она отправляется в своё любимое место: пляжный домик среди золотых песков Эвердина. Там Лиззи неожиданно для себя находит новых друзей, каждый из которых тоже от чего-то бежит. Вскоре её переполняет дух праздника, так что вокруг неё начинают сиять гирлянды, а аромат глинтвейна смешивается с запахом моря • А тем временем семья Лиззи ищет её изо всех сил, ведь без неё и праздник не тот. Успеют ли они найти её вовремя? И поверит ли она в силу и постоянство их любви? • Перед вами полная любви, надежды и праздничного настроения история прощения, из которой выйдет прекрасный подарок! • "Christmas at the Beach Hut" - третья книга цикла "The Beach Hut" Вероники Генри

Issy Randall, proud owner of the Cupcake Cafe, is in love and couldn't be happier. Her new business is thriving and she is surrounded by close friends, even if her cupcake colleagues Pearl and Caroline aren't quite as upbeat about the upcoming season of snow and merriment. But when her boyfriend Austin is scouted for a possible move to New York, Issy is forced to face up to the prospect of a long-distance romance. And when the Christmas rush at the cafe - with its increased demand for her delectable creations - begins to take its toll, Issy has to decide what she holds most dear.This December, Issy will have to rely on all her reserves of courage, good nature and cinnamon, to make sure everyone has a merry Christmas, one way or another

Can new hopes bloom when summer begins again? • When Mattie invites her old friend Tim to stay in one of her family cottages on the edge of Dartmoor, she senses there is something he is not telling her • But as he gets to know the rest of the warm jumble of family by the moor, Tim begins to relax again and he discovers that everyone there has their own secrets. There is Kat, a retired ballet dancer who longs for the stage again; Charlotte, a young navy wife struggling to bring up her son while her husband is at sea; William, who guards a dark past he cannot share with the others; and Mattie . . . who has loved Tim in silence for years • As Tim begins to open up, Mattie falls deeper in love. And as summer warms the wild Dartmoor landscape, new hopes begin to bloom

On the tiny Scottish island of Mure, Christmas preparations are even more hectic than usual • Flora MacKenzie is worried about her brother. Fintan hasn't got over the death of his partner, Colton, and Flora thinks he needs a project • The Rock - the rambling, disused hotel on the tip of the island - was Colton's passion project before he died. With Flora's help, Fintan is going to get the hotel up and running in time for Christmas, transforming it into a festive haven of crackling log fires and delicious food. But running a hotel, they are about to discover, is not that easy. Especially when their motley staff includes a temperamental French chef, a spoilt Norwegian kitchen boy who can't peel a potato without mutilating his own hand and a painfully shy kitchen assistant who blushes when anyone speaks to her

Бекка Флетчер всегда ненавидела Рождество, но у нее есть свои причины быть Маленькой мисс Гринч. Однако теперь она не может избежать своей версии "хо-хо-ада", потому что едет в кафе Comfort Food, чтобы провести праздничный сезон со своей сестрой Лорой и ее семьей. Она ожидает глинтвейна, 24-часовых рождественских киномарафонов и всевозможных очень веселых пыток • Бекка и не подозревает, что кафе Comfort Food не похоже ни на одно другое место на земле. Расположенное на заснеженном холме, это место, полное дружбы, где могут исцелиться разбитые сердца, расцвести новая любовь и где рождественское чудо Бекки действительно могло бы произойти - если бы только она могла позволить этому случиться… • "Рождество в кафе Comfort Food" - это продолжение бестселлера 2016 года "Лето в кафе Comfort Food", который приглашает читателей, как новых, так и старых, устроиться в уютном кресле

The year is 1962 and in Moscow KGB officer Alexander Vasin feels as if he's chasing ghosts. Ordered to find an American spy rumoured to be embedded at the highest echelon of Soviet power, he's caught up in a dangerous game of espionage against not only the CIA but also state rival agencies • But it's while pursuing this infiltrator that Vasin learns of a top-secret operation that could push the world to the brink of war. The Kremlin has deployed short-range nuclear missiles on Cuba, barely ninety miles from the US coast, and, to support its high-risk gambit, dispatched four submarines to the Caribbean. Each is armed with a nuclear payload - and on board one of them there is an officer who is dangerously unfit for command • As tensions between the USSR and the USA escalate, the world holds its breath-and Vasin faces an extraordinary dilemma: how to warn his enemy without betraying his country