Known for its luxury and discrete service, the Hotel Louis XVI in Paris has attracted an international clientele of the rich and famous for many decades. Now, after extensive renovation and under new management, an esteemed group of loyal returning guests is set to descend upon the hotel, joined by a group of new faces who have managed to secure coveted reservations. Anxiously awaiting the guests is the new manager, Olivier Bateau, and his assistant,...

Is the truest family the one we're born into, or the one we make for ourselves? Cinnamon Haynes has fought hard for everything she has - her marriage, a stable job as a career counsellor, and home of her own. She's overcome the difficult circumstances of her childhood to build this life, and yet, she can't help but wonder - is this all there is? Just nineteen years old, Daisy Dunlap has already faced her share of hardships, but she has big dreams...

Minnie and Bert are over the moon to have their three grown-up children home for the first time in a decade. But having Lizzie, Jess, Owen and the grandchildren under one roof isn't without its dramas. Lizzie is off the alcohol (although mulled wine doesn't count), Jess is juggling a toddler and a newborn, but it's Owen who has the power to throw a grenade into everything. It all goes back to something that happened when Owen was a teenager and it...

Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine. Sure, there are the things you'd expect. The undersea volcano lairs. The minions. The plots to take over the world. The international networks of rivals who want you dead. Much harder to get used to are the sentient, language-using, computer-savvy cats. And the fact that in the overall organization, they're management.

Tara Gallagher is knackered. She used to dream of being Beyonce but suddenly she's 36 - with three kids, a loving husband, a very boring job - and instead of headlining Coachella, she's in her pyjamas on a Friday night, watching Gogglebox. It's time for a mammy makeover! She's going to show her teenage daughter she's still cool. She's going to show her husband she's still an absolute ride. She's going to show her colleagues she's still a Boss Bish....

Behind every ordinary day, behind every ordinary story, there's an extraordinary one just waiting to happen. Simon Sparks is the man you know from behind the counter at the local Prince Burger ('hold the gherkin!'), fry shovelling, shelf stacking, hiding away from the world. And Jodie Brook is the single mum you see crossing the street with her son Zak - always chasing a dream she can't reach. What if life could be so much more? When Simon and Jodie's...

Harriet Hatley is running away from everything. Getting married. Her boyfriend's family. Her past. A dream house-share seems like the perfect place to hide, but her unlikely housemate, Cal has secrets of his own. And he's no stranger to running away himself. Can these two take a crazy risk, face the past and finally find a reason to stay?

Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmum to two gorgeous boys goes missing on Monday. Her husband Mark says he knows nothing of her whereabouts. She simply went to work and just never came home. Their family is shattered. Kai Janssen: married to wealthy Dutch businessman, Daan, vanishes the same week. Kai left their luxurious penthouse and glamorous world without a backward glance. She seemingly evaporated into thin air. Daan is distraught. DC Clements...

To grow her craft business, Nancy is in desperate need of two things: help and money. So when a potential investor she's looking to impress recommends an assistant, she jumps at the chance to secure both. Freddy Astley-Davenport is a notorious playboy with zero work experience. He's poised to inherit his family's estate in sunny Seashell Bay - but only if he can hold down a job for six months first. His plan is to take the assistant role in name only,...

Jo Sorsby knows she is hiding from her past when she agrees to look after her uncle's stationery shop. Spending her days glimpsing the lives of her customers as they experiment with what's on offer is a welcome distraction from the life she has left behind. Yet far from home, Jo feels adrift. But when she meets Ruth, a vicar running from a secret, and Malcolm, a septuagenarian struggling to write his first book, she realises that she isn't alone....