One More Chapter While You Slept Parker R. J

For the love of letters… • Experience has told Jenna Oakhurst that Happy Ever After may happen in all the best stories, but Happy For Now is the best one ought to expect in real life. Yet lately even that isn’t quite enough, so when a strange set of circumstances leads her to discover a mysterious letter in an abandoned storage unit, she takes the chance to embark on a journey into the unknown…just like the heroines from the storybooks • Reaching out to the letter’s author, Henry Somners, changes Jenna’s world irrevocably and she starts to realise that the magic she believed in as a child might not be such a fanciful notion after all…

While four 49 year olds are planning a party their seaside town will never forget, they also have more on their minds than canapes and balloons for their half-century… • Empty-nester Charlotte is worried what her husband might be up to • Single mother Roz fears that her teenage daughter will discover how she pays the bills • Businesswoman Fay brags about her no-strings toy boy but hides the truth behind her divorce • Singleton Sherie’s cat is the only male in her life who ever stays around. Or is he? • They’re all keeping secrets but as the big birthday looms, the beans are about to be spilt, and one of them is going to need her friends more than ever…

One dog. Two strangers. An unfurgettable romance • Wanted: someone nice, normal and trustworthy to housesit a beautiful cottage in the Lake District while the owner is away on a business trip. Must like dogs • Wanting to escape from crap bosses and useless boyfriends, Becky jumps at the chance of the perfect escape – rest, relaxation and dog-sitting a very cute pooch called Bella! • But looking after Bella comes with a catch, namely gorgeous, brooding, Chris Hemsworth-worthy Ash James, who claims Bella is his dog and will stop at nothing to get her back! • Becky’s not about to hand over lovely Bella to any Tom, Dick or Ash. She’s determined to watch every move Ash James makes…even if it gets her very hot under the collar

One spring morning, a bus full of children and their teachers from a Cotswolds primary school head off on a much-anticipated day trip • But as night falls and the well-heeled parents – one or two of them famous, as well as wealthy – wait at the school to collect their weary offspring, it soon becomes clear that something has gone very wrong • The children and their teachers simply do not come back • What’s happened doesn’t seem possible • How can an entire class of children simply vanish? • Have you read a Jackie Kabler thriller yet? See why readers devour her writing…

One summer in Greece will change everything… • Anna's running away. From a failed relationship, a dead-end career and a complicated family life • On the island of Santorini, with its picturesque villas, blue-tiled roofs, and the turquoise waters of the Aegean lapping at the white sand beaches, Anna inherits a less-than-picturesque summer house from her estranged father • As she rebuilds the house, she rebuilds her life, uncovering family secrets along the way that will change everything. She soon starts to fall for her little slice of paradise, as well as for gorgeous, charming Nikos • Will Anna lose her heart in more ways than one?

One of them is dead. One of them is lying • Alex, Karen and Misty were an inseparable trio at university. But when Alex died suddenly, the remaining two friends could no longer look each other in the eye, knowing they both had a part to play in her death • Thirty years later, Misty and Karen have long since moved on with their lives. But when Karen thinks she sees her former friend alive, she soon becomes obsessed with a past she thought she’d left behind • Before long, the perfect life she’s built for herself starts to unravel, and it seems as though history might just be repeating itself… • Can Karen keep her secrets hidden? Or will her guilt tear an innocent family apart?

One mum is leaving it all behind for the adventure of a lifetime… • Lorraine Anderson was meant to be making a Sunday roast, not swanning off to Thailand, backpack in hand! But when she finds her husband and her best friend in bed together there’s only one thing to do – grab her passport and never look back! • Now, with each mile travelled Lori sheds the woman she once was and finds the woman she was always meant to be. A woman of passion and spirit who deserves to explore the great unknown…and to indulge in the temptation she encounters along the way!

‘I am a friend of the bees. Like you.’ • ‘So, you have been waiting for me?’ • ‘The forest has been waiting for you.’ • Pakistan, 1974: The secret-wreathed trees of Harikaya have always called to Hassan. He knows if he doesn’t find the last beekeeper and salvage a precious jar of his mythical black honey before the floods come, his mother will lose her sight • But then he wins a scholarship to study with the state governor in Karachi amidst a brewing storm of political turmoil and simmering espionage • His entire world is turned upside down when he meets Maryam, the governor’s niece visiting from London • All the while the fate of his mother and his promise to the bees calls him back to the forest, and so he must decide: Maryam or the beekeeper, England or Pakistan, his head or his heart

Helsingor, Denmark, 1943 • In the midst of the German occupation during World War Two, Inger Bredahl joins the underground resistance and risks her life to save members of Denmark’s Jewish community and help them escape to Sweden • Copenhagen, 2018 • Inger’s granddaughter, Cecilie Lund, is mourning her death when a mysterious discovery while cleaning out Inger’s flat leads past and present to intersect. As long-held secrets finally see the light of day, Cecilie learns the story of her grandmother’s courage and bravery, and of the power of friendship, love, and standing for what’s right…even when you have everything to lose • An inspiring tale of the resilience of the human spirit and the power of community

Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you raid the pantry in the middle of the night… • The Comfort Food Cafe is perched on a windswept clifftop at what feels like the edge of the world, serving up the most delicious cream teas; beautifully baked breads, and carefully crafted cupcakes. For tourists and locals alike, the ramshackle cafe overlooking the beach is a beacon of laughter, companionship, and security – a place like no other; a place that offers friendship as a daily special, and where a hearty welcome is always on the menu • For widowed mum-of-two Laura Walker, the decision to uproot her teenaged children and make the trek from Manchester to Dorset for the summer isn’t one she takes lightly, and it’s certainly not winning her any awards from her kids, Nate and Lizzie

Perfect for escapist reading – you won’t be able to put it down! • You are invited to the wedding of the season… • It’s the stuff of fairytales. A celebrity wedding in a grand manor house in the beautiful English countryside • But then one guest goes missing • And another almost dies • Someone at this wedding will do anything to stop their dark secrets from being exposed • You might not live to tell the tale…

The only book you need during lockdown – heartwarming, uplifting and a cast of characters who will become your best friends! • Love Heart Lane – where friends are there for you no matter what • There’s a newcomer to the village of Heartcross and she’s never been more in need of a friend • As the new waitress at the local bistro, The Lake House, Ella is ready to start afresh ––and that could mean there’s love on the horizon in the form of the gorgeous Roman, the local water taxi driver. Every day Roman is there to ferry Ella to the restaurant on the other side of the lake and every night he makes sure she gets home safe. But Roman has secrets of his own… • Can the Love Heart Lane community offer Ella a chance of a new life? Or will the ghosts of her past catch up with her?