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Love, honour – and obey? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match • Sophie Apperly has spent her whole life pleasing others – but when she realises her family see her less as indispensable treasure and more as general dogsbody, she decides she's had enough. So when an old friend offers her the chance of a lifetime, she decides to swap Little England for the Big Apple, and heads off to the land of opportunity • From the moment Sophie hits the bright lights of Manhattan she's determined to enjoy every minute of her big adventure. And when fate throws her together with Matilda, a spirited grande dame of New York society who invites her to Connecticut for Thanksgiving, she willingly accepts

May, Sally and Harriet have had enough • They may work at Quality Cleaners, but there is nothing quality about the way their boss, 'Slimeball' Slater, runs the business. Sick and tired of working for a crook, May, Sally and Harriet decide to set up their own business • Soon May finds she can afford the mooring fees for her beloved narrowboat, Harriet discovers she has a gift for painting, and Sally's dream of owning a place of her own is fast becoming a reality • It all seems to be going so well. But is it really? • And is it too much, May wonders, to want a man to share her newfound happiness?

A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape • Gina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in the French House, an antiques centre nestled in the heart of the English countryside • Gina is determined to drag the French House and its grumpy owner into the twenty-first century • Bearing all the attributes of a modern-day Mr Rochester, Matthew Ballinger is less than happy with the whirlwind that has arrived on his doorstep • The last thing either of them want is to fall in love • But will a trip to France change their minds?

Will opening the door lead to love and happy endings? • Lorna and her friend Philly work together in the grounds of a beautiful manor house in the Cotswolds • But even though they are surrounded by family and friends, the door to true love remains resolutely closed - until the day they discover a beautiful secret garden deep in the manor's grounds • Could this be the sign that their luck is about to change?

A wonderfully romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Rose Petal Summer and A Country Escape • Take one aspiring cook • When Zoe Harper wins a coveted place in a televised cookery competition, she can't wait to put her cooking skills to the test • Add a very desirable judge • But as the competition heats up, she realises she's developing an inconvenient crush on one of the judges, the truly delicious Gideon Irving • Stir in a heaped tablespoon of romance • All too soon there's more than canapes, cupcakes and cordon bleu at stake • Will Zoe win the competition, or is Gideon one temptation too far?

Fran has always wanted to be a farmer. And now it looks as if her childhood dream is about to come true • She has just moved to her aunt's beautiful but very run-down farm in the Cotswolds. If she can turn the place around in a year, the farm will be hers • But Fran knows nothing about farming. She might even be afraid of cows • She'll need help, not just from her best friend Issi, but also from her wealthy and very eligible neighbour - who might just have his own reasons for being so supportive • Is it the farm he is interested in? Or Fran herself? • Warm, funny and wonderfully romantic, this is Katie Forde at her very best

Bidding for love can be a costly business... Flora Stanza has sub-let her London life in a bid to join the family antiques business. Her knowledge extends only to the information she has crammed from daytime TV, but what she lacks in experience she makes up for in blind enthusiasm. So she is more than a little put out when she doesn't receive the warm country welcome she expected. Her curt cousin Charles and his fiancee Annabelle are determined to send Flora packing, and their offer to buy her out is tempting... until a strange warning makes her think twice. Stuck with a cat about to burst with kittens, Flora has little choice but to accept the offer to stay in an abandoned holiday cottage miles from any neighbours, let alone a trendy winebar

Who knows what might happen in a summer of love? • Sian Bishop has left the hustle and bustle of the city behind and has thrown herself into a new life in the country • With her young son, her picture-postcard garden and her small thriving business, she's happy and very busy. She is not - repeat not - looking for love • And then, one glorious summer evening, Gus Beresford arrives • One-time explorer, full-time heart-breaker, Gus is ridiculously exciting, wonderfully glamorous - and, Sian tells herself, completely wrong for a romantically cautious single woman like her • But she and Gus have met before. And, despite Sian's best intentions, it isn't long before she's falling for him all over again

A vintage wedding, romance, and a happily-ever-after ending - what more could you want from the 'modern-day Jane Austen'? • In a small Cotswold country town, Beth, Lindy and Rachel are looking for new beginnings • So they set up a business of their own: organising stylish and perfectly affordable vintage weddings • Soon they are busy arranging other people's Big Days • What none of them know is that their own romances are waiting just around the corner

Anna has risked everything to buy and renovate a beautiful cottage • The outside is perfect, but inside all is chaos: with a ladder for a staircase, no downstairs flooring, candles the only form of lighting and a sleeping bag and camping mat for a bed, Anna's soon wondering whether she's bitten off more than she can chew • Her neighbour Chloe comes to the rescue, providing tea, wine and sympathy. But just as Anna's starting to believe she's found the perfect idyll, good-looking but impossible Rob Hunter arrives on the scene, putting up more obstacles than the Grand National • Can Anna have it all? A dream house and the perfect man?

Soraya knows she could never fall for someone like Magnus. He's her complete opposite in every way • Popular and confident, Magnus seems to have his life figured out, while Soraya has got to twenty-one and has somehow never been kissed • Soraya's mother Neda also knows what it's like to feel mismatched. She left Iran with her husband in the wake of revolution, and the aftershocks of that decision are still being felt decades later • When Soraya sets her sights on Magnus for her first kiss, the last thing she expects to find is first love • But sometimes the person you least expect might turn out to be the perfect fit • With unforgettable characters at its heart, THE MISMATCH is a pitch-perfect coming-of-age story and a fresh take on how what you think you want isn't always what brings you happiness

It’s the final year of training for three young nurses at The Nightingale Hospital… • Helen is at a crossroads in her life as she battles with her domineering mother over both her love life and her future career • Dora can't stop loving Nick, who is married to her best friend, Ruby. But Ruby is hiding a dark secret with the potential to destroy Ruby's marriage • Millie is anxious about her fiance, sent to Spain to cover the Civil War, and things only get worse when she encounters a fortune teller who gives her a sinister warning • With war looming in Europe, and the East End of London squaring up to the threat of Oswald Mosley's blackshirts, the women of the Nightingale have to face their own challenges, at work and in love • From the author of The Nightingale Girls and The Nightingale Sisters, this is the perfect read for fans of Call the Midwife