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It had been a make-or-break holiday for their marriage, but Natasha and Rob’s rekindled romance is short-lived when their daughter’s beloved soft toy disappears on the journey home. As Natasha comforts the distraught child, she turns to social media for help. Miraculously, the toy is found, but it has become the lucky mascot of a man named Duffy, who is thousands of miles away. When Duffy promises to keep Natasha updated with pictures, the pair begin a correspondence that soon becomes more meaningful to both of them.

Wild-spirited Effie Gillies has lived all her life on the small island of St Kilda but when Lord Sholto, heir to the Earl of Dumfries, visits, the attraction between them is instant. For one glorious week she guides the handsome young visitor around the isle, falling in love for the first time—until a storm hits and her world falls apart. Three months later, St Kilda falls silent as the islanders are evacuated for a better life on the mainland. With her friends and family scattered, Effie is surprised to be offered a position working on the Earl’s estate.

It’s the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children, her father has made it clear he can’t support her past the coming winter. On the small, Scottish island of St Kilda, her options are limited. But the MacKinnons’ neighbour, Donald, has a business acquaintance on distant Harris also in need of a spouse. A plan is hatched for Donald to chaperone Mhairi and make the introduction on his final crossing of the year, before the autumn seas close them off to the outside world.

Pia Soto is the sexy and glamorous prima ballerina, the Brazilian bombshell who's shaking up the ballet world with her outrageous behaviour. She's wild and precocious, and she's a survivor. But ruthless financier Will Silk has Pia in his sights, and has other ideas...Sophie O'Farrell is Pia's hapless, gawky assistant, the girl-next-door to Pia's Prima Donna. When a devastating accident threatens to cut short Pia's illustrious career, Sophie has to step out of the shadows and face up to the demons in her own life.

December 2018, and free-spirited Influencers Bo Loxley and her partner, Zac, are living a life of wanderlust, travelling the globe and sharing their adventures with their millions of fans. Booked to spend Christmas in the Norwegian fjords, they set up home in a remote farm owned by enigmatic mountain guide Anders and his fierce grandmother, Signy. Surrounded by snowy peaks and frozen falls, everything should be perfect. But the camera can lie, and with every new post, the ‘perfect’ life Zac and Bo are portraying is diverging from the truth.

A gripping, festive novel, Christmas Under the Stars by Karen Swan reveals the devastating power of secrets. Worlds apart. A love without limit. In the snow-topped mountains of the Canadian Rockies, Meg and Mitch are living their dream. Just weeks away from their wedding, they work and play with Tuck and Lucy, their closest and oldest friends. Meg and Lucy are as close as sisters - much to Meg's sister's dismay - and Tuck and Mitch have successfully turned their passion for snowboarding into a booming business.

When Declan Lorne, the last remaining knight in Ireland, dies suddenly, an ancient title passes with him. But his estate on Ireland’s rugged south-west coast is left to his three daughters. The two eldest, Ottie and Pip, inherit in line with expectations, but to everyone’s surprise - and dismay - it is the errant baby of the family, Willow, who gets the castle. Why her? Something unknown - something terrible - made her turn her back on her family three years earlier, escaping to Dublin and vowing never to return....

'This was where her dreams drifted to if she didn't blot her nights out with drink; this was where her thoughts settled if she didn't fill her days with chat. She remembered this tiny, remote foreign village on a molecular level and the sight of it soaked into her like water into sand, because this was where her old life had ended and her new one had begun.'

Bestsellerautorin Karen Swan über rätselhafte Geheimnisse und romantische Verwicklungen vor karibischer Kulisse. Weiße Sandstrände, strahlend blauer Himmel und das satte Grün des Regenwalds: Für die Londoner Kinderärztin Tara ist Costa Rica das Paradies auf Erden. Aber seit zehn Jahren ist sie nicht mehr dort gewesen – seit ihre Jugendliebe Alex ihr das Herz gebrochen hat. Erst eine große Familienfeier bringt Tara dazu, ins Land ihrer Träume zurückzukehren.

Die neue Winter-Romance von Bestellerautorin Karen Swan. Als Lee vor fünf Jahren nach Amsterdam kam, hatte sie ein neugeborenes Baby und ein großes Geheimnis im Gepäck. Inzwischen hat sie ein neues Zuhause und viele gute Freunde gefunden. Eines Morgens liegt in ihrem Fahrradkorb ein Buch mit einer hastig hineingekritzelten Nachricht. Lee macht den Autor, Sam, ausfindig, und zwischen den beiden funkt es sofort. Doch als der erste Schnee fällt und Amsterdams Grachten zufrieren, wird Lee erneut mit ihrem Geheimnis konfrontiert.

Die neue Winter-Romance von Bestellerautorin Karen Swan. Als Lee vor fünf Jahren nach Amsterdam kam, hatte sie ein neugeborenes Baby und ein großes Geheimnis im Gepäck. Inzwischen hat sie ein neues Zuhause und viele gute Freunde gefunden. Eines Morgens liegt in ihrem Fahrradkorb ein Buch mit einer hastig hineingekritzelten Nachricht. Lee macht den Autor, Sam, ausfindig, und zwischen den beiden funkt es sofort. Doch als der erste Schnee fällt und Amsterdams Grachten zufrieren, wird Lee erneut mit ihrem Geheimnis konfrontiert.

Der neue Liebesroman von Bestsellerautorin Karen Swan. Bell liebt ihr Leben in Stockholm und ihren Job als Nanny bei Familie Mogert. Vor allem aber liebt sie den schwedischen Sommer, den sie alle zusammen auf einer kleinen Schäreninsel verbringen. Doch in diesem Jahr ist alles anders: Seit einem verwirrenden Anruf ein paar Wochen zuvor ist die Stimmung angespannt, und Bell ahnt, dass die Mogerts ihr etwas verheimlichen. An Mittsommer findet sie Trost und Geborgenheit in den starken Armen von Emil, dem schönsten Mann, der ihr je begegnet ist. Aber auch Emil hat seine Geheimnisse.