Lynsey Dixon never plans anything. She has no commitments and no responsibilities apart from her job at a London talent agency that specialises in neurotic actresses like Melanie Chaplin. After keeping her calm head in a crisis, Lynsey is offered a transfer to Los Angeles to help Melanie settle into a new television show. Lynsey can recognise an opportunity when she sees one. An opportunity for serious star spotting and sunny days. Melanie Chaplin is excited to be famous, but being famous can make you forget yourself. Soon she is wildly in love with a married man and pregnant by her womanising co-star, Fabien Stewart. Being a star can be stressful. And why, when her career is soaring, is she jealous of the young wannabes nipping at her Jimmy Choo heels?Serena Simon is the most beautiful girl in the world. She didn't exactly choose Hollywood. When you look like Serena, Hollywood is the only place to go. She has a plan and it's working. Fame is only a photoshoot away. Any...

Exceptionally entertaining and wonderfully original" (Chicago Tribune), Beth Kendrick delivers a funny story about family, self- discovery, and the pursuit of the perfect pie crust. Suburban soccer mom Amy has always wanted to stand out from the crowd. Former child prodigy Linnie just wants to fit in. The two sisters have been estranged for years, but thanks to a series of personal crises and their wily grandmother, they've teamed up to enter a national bake-off in the hopes of winning some serious cash. Armed with the top-secret recipe for Grammy's apple pie, they should be unstoppable. Sure, neither one of them has ever baked anything more complicated than brownie mix, but it's just pie-how hard could it be?

With its corrugated iron siding and cramped interior, the Cherico, Mississippi, library is no Antebellum gem. But for young librarian Maura Beth Mayhew, it's as essential to the community as the delicious desserts at the Twinkle, Twinkle Café. It's a place for neighbors to mingle and browse through the newest bestsellers, for the indomitable Miss Voncille Nettles to host her "Who's Who in Cherico?" meetings. The library may be underfunded and overlooked, but it's Maura Beth's pride, and she won't let the good ole boys on the City Council close it down without a fight.Which is why Maura Beth has founded the Cherry Cola Book Club—a last-ditch attempt to boost circulation and save her job. Over potluck dinners featuring treasured family recipes, the booklovers of Cherico come together to talk about literary classics. But soon it's not just Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee being discussed over chicken gumbo and homemade biscuits with green pepper jelly. Secrets are shared,...

Some Like it Hot You're in your twenties – bright, articulate and effortlessly attractive – with great career prospects. You see the world through rose-tinted glasses. You're practically invincible. Now try this: you're turning forty, your degree is gathering dust, your husband works long hours, your kids see you as a glorified domestic and you're not looking as youthful as once upon a time. In fact, what just happened? In the blink of an eye your life has been swept from beneath you. Your friends, of course, have their own problems . . . Your only lifeline is the Curry Club – where every week you and your four best friends come together to spice up your lives. From one bowl a curry is served while in another five anonymous questions sit tightly folded until just one is drawn out for discussion. One of you gets help or maybe just gets to say one of those things that are best left unsaid . . . The others are left wondering just whose life is being...

After Polly ends her relationship with the father of her young son, Louis, she is determined to move on. All she wants is to focus on her job, her friends and to be a good mum. No more looking over her shoulder. No more complications . . . Then Polly meets Ben. Ben is guardian of his niece, Emily. They become close, with Polly teaching Ben how to plait Emily's hair, and Ben playing football with Louis. Their friendship is unexpected. Polly’s never been happier. But when Louis's dad reappears in their life, all Polly’s mistakes come back to haunt her and her resolve weakens when he swears he has changed. Will she give herself a second chance to love? A heart-warming and touching novel, this is Alice Peterson at her emotional and uplifting best. For fans of Lucy Dillon and Jojo Moyes.

Autumn is coming. Anything could happen... Julia is contemplating an affair with ex-boyfriend Max after a chance meeting in the cereal aisle of the supermarket...and finding that he's just as gorgeous as ever. Miranda has got it all: expensive clothes, a huge house and her enormously wealthy husband, Doug. So why does she feel as if something is missing? Faye is fed up of being treated like a child – she's a teenager, and knows what she wants! She's determined to escape her sleepy life at Primrose Cottage... Three women, each with two options, needing to make one choice. When it comes to affairs of the heart, nothing is ever simple! A perfect, feel-good read about love, life and family. Previously published as A Country Affair.

With her cousin missing, Gwen’s family packs up and returns to Brighton—the town her father fled years ago after a falling out with his brother. During their stay, Gwen encounters several mysteries, like the wolves that seem to haunt the Grady’s home and the stranger her cousin was in contact with shortly before her disappearance. Secrets are being kept…ones that might spell disaster for them all.

Shipwrecked and stranded with a sexy stranger, a runaway bride finally risks losing her heart. Cristy Walters planned the perfect wedding: five-star resort, beautiful dress, millionaire husband-to-be. So how come on her wedding day she’s shipwrecked on a tropical island, her gown in tatters, and carried over the threshold of a survival hut by a hot, hunky stranger? With no rescue in sight, Cristy is all alone with sexy Matt Slade—a man who makes her pulse race like it never did for her fiancé. She and Matt explore the island—and each other. Passion is instant, trust comes slowly—especially as Matt is not the carefree boat bum he appears to be. Can the love they discover survive in the real world away from their castaway fantasy?

When Jenna crashes a high-society party, she has one goal in mind: humiliate Devon Ward, the new CEO of TrueLife Insurance Company. She never expects to see Devon again, but then nothing about Devon is what she expected. After her demonstration, he should be pressing charges. Instead he seems determined to right the wrongs inflicted by his company. But Jenna's been fighting her own battles for so long, she's not sure she can trust someone like Devon, no matter how genuine he seems.Devon Ward never wanted to be the CEO of an insurance company, and he has no interest in money or society. What he does care about is preserving the one good thing his father left behind, a legacy of relieving the pain of others. When that legacy is challenged by a beautiful and very angry woman, he'll do whatever it takes to change her mind about his company and save its reputation. It doesn't take long for Devon to realize it's him that needs to change, but even if he can become the kind of man Jenna deserves, will she give him a chance?

What do you do if you've been married to a man for half your life and out of nowhere he leaves your bed – permanently? When this happens to Jeanie, she's furious and hurt, and determined to confront George, her husband of thirty years. Is he in love with someone else? What did she do wrong? He won't tell her. The brightest day of her week is Thursday, the day Jeanie takes her granddaughter to the park. There, one day, she meets Ray and his grandson. Ray is kind, easy to talk to, and gorgeous – everything George isn't. She starts to live for Thursdays. But does she have the courage, in the teeth of opposition from all sides, to turn her life upside down for another shot at love?Review'[A] tender and intriguing love story ... Boyd is as canny as Joanna Trollope at observing family life - and better than Trollope at jokes. But she is at her best when quietly dismantling the scaffolding that families spend years putting up to protect themselves from each other' Daily Mail. 'A warm and well-written case for love affairs in later life' Daily Telegraph. 'Hilary Boyd creates a poignant portrait of a stale marriage and the ties that bind couples together' Chicklitclub. About the AuthorHilary Boyd is a former health journalist. She has published six non-fiction books on health-related subjects such as step-parenting, depression and pregnancy. Now she turns her hand to fiction with this wise and witty first novel. She lives in London.

Dylan Summers came into Ethan Asher’s life blazing brighter than any star. He was drawn to her as he’d never been to anything or anyone before. But no matter how much he loved her, the torment of their past tore them apart. Dylan Summers spent her whole life trying to hold on to the last nerve of her sanity. Now she found herself alone and searching for a man that seem to only be a dream. Will finding him finally heal her or finish destroying her?