If you believe your world is going to end, how should you live? And what if, while preparing for disaster, you unwittingly precipitate it? While Emma Abram prepares for Christmas, her husband Chris frets about starvation and societal collapse. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Chris has turned off the heating. He treks his sons across the Moss in the drubbing rain. And he has other plans that, if voiced, Emma would surely veto. But it's...

Every morning Janet Brown goes to work cleaning offices. It calms her, cleanliness, neatness. All the things she's unable to do with her soul can be achieved with a damp cloth and a splash of bleach. However, the guilt she still carries about a devastating loss that happened eleven years ago cannot be erased. Then, Janet finds herself involved in a train crash and, recognising the chance to do what she couldn't all those years ago, she makes a decision....

New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world's most luxurious trans-Atlantic liners, departs for Liverpool and war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in Her Majesty's government tasked with discreetly escorting a British diplomat back to England in relation to charges of suspected treason.When a fellow passenger, Jimmy Dowrich, is found shot to death in his cabin, the captain asks Gallagher to investigate. Knowing...

Zoe has a special talent for saving lost causes but she'll need a miracle to save herself from this mess! When her biggest advertising account cancels their contract, single mum Zoe Taylor's Good News Gazette - Westholme's pre-eminent feel-good news source - faces an uncertain future. Determined to save her paper, Zoe strikes a bargain with millionaire developer Daniel Lewis - he'll help her find advertisers and in exchange she'll spearhead his campaign...

There were never such devoted sisters. Things are far from simple in the noisy, warm-hearted Bertalone family. Carmina is the quintessential extrovert with beaus flocking to her side like bees round a honeypot - all except Luc Fabriani. For some unaccountable reason, he seems to prefer Carmina's sister. Gina has always been quiet and shy, the apple of her over-protective parents' eye, so she believes her sister when Carmina spreads malicious rumours...

Patsy Bowman is a newcomer to the Champion Street market. Riddled with insecurities, her impudence and cheek win her enemies as well as many new friends. Her curiosity soon starts to unravel secrets that the Higginson sisters would much rather keep hidden.

Nine years ago, Zoe Taylor returned from London to the quiet hamlet of Westholme with her tail between her legs and a bun in the oven. Where once her job as a journalist saw her tearing off to Paris at a moment's notice after a lead, now the single mum covers the local news desk. At least, she did - until she's unceremoniously let go. When Zoe invites her friends over to commiserate, wine and whining soon turns into something more. and before the...

Chocolate can also be bitter. It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone dotes on Aunty Dot, as much as they do on her homemade sweets. The plump, smiling woman has provided a loving home for many a troubled child over the years, and Lizzie Pringle is no exception. Lizzie would do anything for her foster mother - even take on local sweet manufacturer and notorious bully, Cedric Finch. Until, that is, she falls for his son, Charlie. Meanwhile,...

When Ethan Postlethwaite, his wife Grace and their daughter Amy announce that they will be leaving the family home in the Yorkshire Dales, Grace's parents are heartbroken. Hoping for a new life prospecting for gold in the wilds of Canada, the Postlethwaites say goodbye and set sail across the Atlantic in search of a brighter future. However, after their hard and treacherous journey, it becomes apparent that the promised riches of the gold fields have...