It was not an easy prospect for nanny Isabelle Mendes to hand over three-year-old Jack Carlton to a father he had never seen. After his mother was killed in an accident it had been decided that Jack should live with his estranged father, Jeffrey, and that Isabelle, who had looked after him since birth, should personally deliver him to Northumberland. Isabelle had no reason to have any feelings for this man except anger. But he was soon throwing her emotions into turmoil...

Alison Wareham must put her pride aside as she clashes with the enigmatic Maurice Kyle. The society designer is an impatient and demanding man, and after their first encounter Alison dismisses him as overbearing and arrogant. But she also finds herself attracted to him and that disturbs her. For the normally calm and capable Alison is a woman with secrets, and when shadows from her past reappear her world is turned upside down, threatening everything she's worked so hard for. Alison must choose between loyalty and love if she's ever to?find lasting happiness, and she must learn to trust again.

Mysterious strangers can often be enticing, yet dangerous too. Headstrong Sarah Littlejohn's heart had skipped a beat at the prospect of joining her Aunt Charlotte for a London season, for at one and twenty Sarah was no longer a young girl. ?But a mishap on the journey brings her face to face with Jack Edgeworth, and she has no doubt where the blame for the accident lies. Jack finds her disapproval amusing, but he is less amused when she attracts the attentions of the?good-looking Robert Rossingham. As Aunt Charlotte observes, Sarah must learn to tell the sheep from the wolves—but that proves to be far from easy.

Jenny Carson is horrified when she discovers that her estranged husband, Ryder Surtees, is due to give a series of lectures at the college where she is a mature student. It has been five years since they parted and during that time she has built a new life for herself and her daughter, Helen. Now she fears Ryder will find out about the daughter he never knew he had...

Life is busy for District Nurse Isobel Ross. It's wartime, and her patients in the outlying Northumberland farms aren't always easy to reach. With her brother, Alan, away on flying missions most of the time she has plenty to keep her occupied.The son of one of her patients, Jack Lewis, is back home after being shot down but is unable to come to terms with the loss of his leg and is overwhelmed by endless nightmares. But why does Isobel feel so responsible for his well-being? Could her brother's perilous airborne missions explain her interest in Jack—or is it more than that? And with Jack wallowing in self-pity, the last thing on his mind is Isobel.

An exotic location will keep Frances Gardiner's mind focused on her career as a jockey, interrupted by a terrible accident over a year earlier. She can't afford to let love get in the way...but no-one could have foreseen how her life was to change when she decided on impulse to take up a job abroad. After a rocky beginning Fran settles into life as secretary to the internationally famous three-day event rider, Kane Harding. But the darkly handsome Harding finds it hard to trust anyone, especially a woman, and when the beautiful Pilar Mendoza crosses swords with Fran there can surely be only one winner...

Her whole life changed that summer, the moment she set foot on the beautiful holiday island of Gran Canaria. When Lynn Raynor, an English nurse, saves a young man's life she has no idea how fateful her action would turn out to be. Peter Falcon's father, the tall dark Luis, is grateful, but impatient and enigmatic, and his proud grandmother and beautiful aunt treat Lynn with barely concealed hostility. But when Peter drives her up into the mountains and Lynn sees a remote and abandoned house she is instantly and irresistibly drawn to it. She never dreamed it would lead her into danger and romance, for the house holds a secret...

Living the life of a busy nurse means Selina doesn't have much time for romance—or so she thinks. But sometimes you've got to take a chance in life, and Selina does just that with amazing consequences...When her flatmate leaves to get married Selina feels it might be time to make a change too, and a holiday in Rhodes is the perfect starting point. At a whirlwind pace she finds herself with a new job and a new life in the sun beckoning; everything seems set for a perfect future. But she'd reckoned without the family politics and dark secrets of Doctor Demitri Vardos—and the rumours about his young wife's tragic end.

Cassie has come back to her childhood home with a secret and it's a secret that stops her trusting any man, even one as kind as Marc.