Four Gorgeously Uplifting Stories to Make you Laugh, Cry and Everything in Between

Second Hand Jane

All would be good in Jess's world if it weren't for her meddling mum, who views her daughter's life as a newspaper columnist in Dublin a mere stop-gap until Mr Right happens along. She thinks he might just have turned up when her daughter meets the delectable Nick. Then, an idea for her column takes Jess away from Nick to Ireland's north where she tries to unravel the long-buried story of a surly farmer with a tragic past. With help from a little pig, Jess is about to lay the ghosts of his family to rest and learn that first impressions aren't always what they seem.

As her love life becomes increasingly tangled, Jess's mum decides it's time she sorted things out and suddenly Jess's happy ending looks as likely as Wilbur flying.

Staying at Eleni's

Sometimes life doesn't go to plan. Take Annie's for instance. Her fiance won't commit to setting a date and the zipper of her dream dress won't quite do up. Her cat's just died and her best friend, Carl thinks getting married will be the biggest mistake of her life. Annie's had enough and when her Greek pen pal invites her to come and stay at the family guesthouse on the island of Crete, she wings her way over.

Under Crete's brilliant blue skies Annie's about to discover that sometimes you have to let go of the future you thought you had mapped out and let your life make a map all of its own.

The Cooking School on the Bay

Rebecca Loughton's bumbled her way through her thirty-something years making a few cock-ups along the way. Of course, these wouldn't be so obvious if it wasn't for her golden haired, older sister Jennifer.

In a bid to escape Jennifer's lengthy shadow and to find her happy ever after Rebecca, high-tails it out of her hometown of Christchurch to the other side of the world landing a legal secretary job in the buzzing city of Dublin. A few drinks later, all she has to show for her new life is an embarrassing one-night stand and a dollop of flirtatious banter with her boss Ciaran, who just happens to have a predatory receptionist in hot pursuit of him.

Amidst plans of preventing such a merger, Rebecca receives news that Jennifer's picture perfect life has a big, fat crack down the middle of it in the form of a philandering husband. Summoned home to look after her sister's children and cooking school while she works on her marriage, Rebecca finds the reality of looking after two young children along with the bizarre array of guests booked into the cooking school grim. The only bright spot on her horizon are Ciaran's e-mails but then she meets David Seagar whom she thinks might just be the ending to her happy ever after but will he prove to be far from perfect too?

The Promise

Isabel and Constance are not just from different generations they're polar opposites. One's a lost soul unsure where she fits in the world while the other's cantankerous and living in a care home. Their paths might never have crossed were it not for a pivotal moment and a promise made that changed the direction of Isabel's, life and brought her to the Isle of Wight. Together she and Constance form a tight bond based on a mutual need for friendship.

In keeping her promise though, will the opening up of Constance's old wounds break those bonds? Or, will Isabel finally find a place to call home?


Genre: Romance