Collection: Adult fiction

You think it will never happen to you: the ring of the bell, the policeman on the doorstep. What he says traps you in a nightmare that starts with the words, 'I'm afraid.' Sally Lambert is also afraid, and desperate enough to consider the unthinkable. Is it really, definitely, impossible to escap...

When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was.

The threat of nuclear war is no longer scary. This is much worse. It's invisible. It works quickly. And it's coming. The scourge has already infected and killed half the population in China and it is heading towards the UK. There is no time to escape. The British government sees no way out other ...

Maya Killgore is 28 and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is 38, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It's such a cliché, it almost makes her heart implode: older man and younger woman. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relatio...

Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to re-establish her journalism career, but post-pandemic travel journalism is a very different landscape from the one she left ten years ago. The chateau on the shores of Lake Geneva is everything Lo's ever dreamed of, and s...

In Georgian London, widowed confectioner Hannah Cole must prove the legitimacy of her late husband's fortune with the help of his associate, William Devereux. But both are hiding secrets.

As the summer sun beats down on the ancient town of Acitrezza, a folk festival plays out in the picturesque harbour. Music, laughter and the aroma of local delicacies fill the air, and a traditional pantomime draws a crowd. For rookie journalist Nedda Leonardi, it's just another day's reporting i...

Lake Como, New Jersey: Jess Capodimonte Baratta is not living the life she dreamed of. Divorced and residing in her parents' basement, the most joy she finds in life is helping her Uncle Louie with his marble business. But when things take a turn in Louie's life, and family secrets come to light,...

The moment Pixie Tate steps inside the opulent Aldershoff Hotel in Manhattan, one of the last relics of New York's Gilded Age, she senses instantly that its elegant walls hide a dark secret. Pixie knows that she must use her unique gift to travel back in time in order to discover the mysteries of...

In the sleepy Yorkshire Dales, the peaceful existence of Sally's family is shattered by the outbreak of the Second World War. With her father navigating the challenges of wartime farming, and her mother striving to keep the home fires burning, young Sally is determined to do her bit. The war brin...

17-year-old Elise Bouchard has always called Northern France home. But when her English father, Sidney Cooper, is captured by the Nazis, her world is shattered. Fearing for her safety, Elise is forced to abandon the only life she has ever known - her beloved grandmother, her brother fighting in t...

Twenty years ago, a summer holiday ended in tragedy for the Palmer family. No one has spoken of it since. Until a new TV series plays out the horrifying events of that night. As the family are forced to relive that fateful trip, is it possible that each person is hiding their own secrets, and is ...

When Jasmine moves into 13 Ravens Lane with her husband and two daughters, she's excited to be finally settling into their forever home. But very soon, it becomes clear that something is wrong with the house. Sudden drops in temperature, unexplained swarms of insects, plants that keep dying for n...

When Camille Fontaine arrives on the sun-drenched island of Majorca, she's running from a shattered love affair. But even amongst the palm trees and the golden sands, she can't forget her past. Surrounded by the glamorous and the guilty, Camille isn't the only one with secrets to hide. Is one sun...

When Kerensa is sent by her father's auction house to catalogue a neglected house overlooking the sea in Newlyn, Cornwall, it's a welcome escape. Once the home of two female artists, Harbour House is a treasure trove, but one painting in particular catches Kerensa's eye - a hypnotically sensual p...