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Audiobooks Narrated by Kirsty Strain
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"June views the world in colour and bloom. She is a keen horticulturist and an amateur arborist, and she can name every flower species beginning with the letter J. She knows a lot about garden management and soil cultivation. But what she doesn’t know a lot about, is people.
When her mother dies unexpectedly and their home is repossessed, June decides to journey south to find her secondary caregiver who she has not seen since she was an infant. However, June’s biological father does not want to be found, nor does he want to be reminded of those turbulent times up north with her mother. Panicked and confused, he turns her away, not wanting to jeopardise his London life and his new family, who he lives with in a big redstone townhouse in Notting Hill in a garden filled with white roses and lemon thyme, on a street lined with Japanese Dawn Redwood trees.
With nowhere else to go and without her father knowing, June moves into the yellow shed in his garden where she can spend her days once again surrounded by colour and bloom. There, she reluctantly forges a new friendship with her ten-year-old half-brother and the family dog, who keep her residence in the garden shed a secret, and over the course of a balmy summer in London she realises that this child is the only one who’s ever really understood her.
As the summer blooms wither and autumn sets in, June is forced to both process the differences that stop her from maintaining social relationships with others, and the death of her mother if she ever stands a chance of connecting with her father, and with herself."
"Four-year-old Darcy vanished thirteen years ago. Now she's come home.
Darcy Drummond was four when she was kidnapped on a crowded beach. A massive police search and media frenzy followed but the girl was never found. Most people gave Darcy up for dead. Or worse.
Then, one fateful night, she walks into a police station. Seventeen years old. A chance to start over.
As the world celebrates Darcy's return, Margo Martin, journalist and friend of the Drummond family, receives a strange phone call. A call which leads her step-by-step towards a horrifying revelation…
The real reason for Darcy's disappearance is a long-kept secret. A secret so shocking, so unexpected that it will plunge the Drummond family into a nightmare they will struggle to survive.
The Lost Girl is a gripping psychological thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat."
"A deer. A car crash. A damaged finger and dented pride.
Not how I thought my evening would go. When a handsome man with a smooth American accent comes to my rescue, I decide that the day might not be all bad.
The problem is that it's not just my finger that's damaged; it's my heart as well, keeping me tied to a past that's long gone.
However, I have a plan: Therapy; Complete the bucket list my sisters wrote for me; Bed my American savior, who just happens to be none other than pro-golfer Hunter King; Eat cupcakes.
I mean, what's the worst that can happen? What are the chances of falling in love with someone who lives on the other side of the world, having my heart broken, and ending up with a triple secret that will change both our lives forever?
Hunting Eden is a standalone romance featuring a gorgeous sports hero who wears his heart on his sleeve and a beautiful dreamer dancer who's built walls so high around her you can no longer see her petite frame. It's a perfectly blended full-length romance filled with heat, laughter, emotion, and a HEA, with no cliffhanger. Hunting Eden is book one of The Triple Trouble series."
"'Deliciously chilly' Guardian
'Humming with suppressed hysteria and madness' The Times
'Wonderfully evocative' Heat
Hare House is not its real name, of course. I have, if you will forgive me, kept names to a minimum here, for reasons that will become understandable . . .
In the first brisk days of autumn, a woman arrives in Scotland having left her job at an all-girls school in London in mysterious circumstances. Moving into a cottage on the remote estate of Hare House, she begins to explore her new home – a patchwork of hills, moorland and forest. But among the tiny roads, dykes and scattered houses, something more sinister lurks: local tales of witchcraft, clay figures and young men sent mad.
Striking up a friendship with her landlord, Grant, and his younger sister, Cass, she begins to suspect that all might not be quite as it seems at Hare House. And as autumn turns to winter, and a heavy snowfall traps the inhabitants of the estate within its walls, tensions rise to fever pitch.
Sally Hinchcliffe’s Hare House is a modern-day witch story, perfect for fans of Pine and The Loney.
'A beautiful, slow burn of a novel, eerie and shimmering in equal measure' - Mary Paulson-Ellis"
"Welcome to Magnolia Bloom, where hearts heal and magic happens…in a castle…in East Texas…
Lexi Stewart’s lineage extends to the founders of the MacInnes legacy in far away America. A year has passed since she was widowed much too young, but she’s floundering, so she accepts an invitation to escape her beloved Scotland for a needed respite. Surely a visit with her Texas relatives and a stay at Castle MacInnes will put her back to rights.
There’s just one problem: Logan Jameson. The handsome personal trainer is getting everyone in Magnolia Bloom on a fitness kick, and he's determined to make her believe she’s not too old or too heavy to find love again.
She’s equally determined to prove him wrong. She'd loved her husband and loves her peaceful life. It doesn't matter she's never known grand passion, been consumed by desire, or experienced the joy of being pursued. And she’s never, ever considered being the pursuer.
She’ll take this long overdue vacation and return home, intent on living in her quiet home, in her quiet town, in the security of her quiet future. That will be enough.
Isn’t it?"
"Welcome to Magnolia Bloom, where hearts heal and magic happens... in a castle... in East Texas.
Magnolia Bloom Beginnings is a compilation of three origin novellas about some of the amazing women who created the magic of Magnolia Bloom. This collection includes Welcome to Magnolia Bloom, Love At Last in Magnolia Bloom, and Sunrise in Magnolia Bloom."
"SUNRISE IN MAGNOLIA BLOOM is the third prequel novella in the Magnolia Bloom series.
Welcome to Magnolia Bloom, where hearts heal and magic happens... in a castle... in East Texas
Dara and Lexi -- two women separated by time – are both drawn into the magical MacInnes family. Both believe true love is out of their reach… but what if they’re wrong?
1890 –
Dara Doyle will do anything to protect her baby. Sold to a bordello as a young girl, she’s escaped that life, and she’ll protect her precious Orla with her last breath. When a relative schemes to strip Orla from Dara’s very arms, she learns just how fiercely she’ll fight. Even if it means as the wife—in name only—of Bruce MacInnes. Even if it means leaving everything she knows to go to America and the tiny Texas town of Magnolia Bloom.
Now –
Lexi Stewart is a descendant of Alyssa MacInnes, one of the powerhouse women who created the MacInnes legacy. Lexi is lost. A young widow…well, young in her own eyes…Lexi's coming to terms with the fact that true passion was never in her cards—and certainly isn’t in her future. She’s equally sure she has nothing in common with Alyssa, her impressive ancestor, or Dara Doyle, the Irish spitfire who captured the oldest MacInnes son’s heart a century ago. Still, it’s a lovely story, one she’d love to live herself, but it’s a tale meant only for dreams."
"She wasn’t looking for love. But will she turn it away when it finds her?
Alyssa MacInnes is perfectly happy with her life—just as it is. A proud suffragette, she knows she doesn’t need love to feel whole. Besides, being responsible for the financial operations of several businesses in the booming new city of Magnolia Bloom keeps her way too busy for romance.
Then he sails into her small town and makes her question everything…
He’s a Highlander who challenges her. Riles her. Speaks to her in a thick brogue that makes her long for her homeland. She shouldn’t want him. But she does…
Building a life with her handsome Scot would mean giving up what she’s created for herself in America. In the end, will the cost of a happily ever after be more than Alyssa is willing to pay?"
