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RUNNING FROM HER PAST Leaving behind Sheffield, her friends and her job, a grieving DCI Matilda Darke finds solace in the wild, untamed beauty of the Lake District. But she can't outrun her reputation. A COLD CASE PC Alison Pemberton is living in the shadow of her twin sisters, who were abducted thirty years ago. As the only witness, Alison has spent her life trying to remember the details of that fateful summer day and discover the truth about what happened to her sisters and why, a few months later, her father also disappeared. A TRUTH THAT SHOULD HAVE STAYED BURIED Matilda finds herself agreeing to try and unearth the truth about the Pemberton twins. With nothing left to lose, Matilda throws herself into the cold case, but someone doesn't want her digging up the past and will do anything to keep the truth hidden...

Can a long-kept secret ruin the future happiness of two families? Paisley, Scotland 1745 Meg and Duncan Montgomery move to the flourishing Scottish town of Paisley to find work in the thriving weaving industry. Soon Meg is expecting their first child, Margaret. To make ends meet, they live in Peter Todd's household, Duncan's employer and Meg's days are filled with domestic duties. But soon Meg and Duncan find themselves caught up in the intricate lives of the Todd family and when a tragic accident causes further conflict, a decision is made to keep a terrible secret from Meg. As Margaret grows older, she despairs of the town's inequality and becomes an advocate for the poor. While her philanthropic ideals are tolerated, even accepted by her understanding parents, Margaret's affection for her childhood friend William Todd is greeted with disapproval. But Margaret wants more from life than marriage and is overjoyed when she is taken on as a teacher at the local hospital. As a dark secret from the past looms over the lives of both families,threatening to tear apart their futures, the younger Todds and Montgomery's must decide between following in their parents' footsteps or forging their own paths

Paisley, Scotland 1775 In the midst of a street brawl, Margaret Knox first encounters Islay McInnes, a Highland girl struggling to support herself and her two cousins in the Paisley slums. Their two lives are polar opposites. Islay, at sixteen, spins yarn to make ends meet whilst Margaret, wife to a surgeon and teacher at the pauper school, pursues charitable endeavours to ease the plight of those less fortunate. With the slums rife with illnesses and as the pox begins to spread Margaret seeing it as her Christian duty to help, persuades her friend Jamie Todd to allow Islay and her cousins to live above his weaving shop. Meanwhile Islay is torn when she receives a marriage proposal that would mean moving away from all she knows and cares for, especially Margaret. But when she falls for a man who doesn't seem to care for her at all, the consequences are disastrous. Can Islay stay in the new home she has grown to love and can Margaret hold together a family beset by conflict and illness? Previously published in paperback as A Matter of Mischief

Virginia, 1749. Rosanna Waters is more comfortable catching grasshoppers for fishing bait than helping her Mama with the washing. After one defiance too many ends in terrible tragedy, Rosanna learns that some wildness comes with a price too terrible to pay. Now with her mother crippled and her family depending on her, Rosanna must abandon her wayward spirit. Then Callum Stewart arrives, a Scottish boy with hair like autumn fire. In him, Rosanna recognises something that calls to the part of herself she's trying so hard to bury, until war tears them apart. As revolution engulfs the colonies, Rosanna has carved out a life in the unforgiving backcountry - eight children, a working farm, and a hard-won independence. But when the war arrives at her doorstep, threatening everything she's built and everyone she loves, Rosanna must decide how far she's willing to go to protect her family and - come face to face with the boy who stole her heart years ago.

When Max Hunter and the HARPA team are called in to investigate the suspicious theft of a stolen Titanic artefact, they are soon embroiled in a breakneck global chase to track down five ancient relics that promise to lead them to perhaps the greatest treasure they could imagine. From the Austrian Alps to a Spanish monastery and the wreck of the Titanic itself, they engage in a high-octane battle to defeat an old and notorious enemy. As their skills are put to the test in new and dangerous ways the team find themselves coming face to face with a brand new, deadly adversary and this time, it could spell the end of Team HARPA forever...

It's time to crack the Excalibur Code... When ex-army officer and UNESCO archaeologist Max Hunter is sent to Normandy on the trail of England's missing crown jewels, he thinks he's in for a few easy weeks. But when the ancient Mont Saint-Michel abbey is attacked by gunmen, Hunter and his research assistant Lauren Lane are forced to flee for their lives with a mysterious treasure chest hidden for centuries inside the abbey. After evading the assassins, Hunter and Lauren find something inside the chest with world-changing consequences. The search for the truth sees Hunter join back up with Amy Fox and the rest of HARPA, as they race across Europe in the footsteps of an enigmatic warrior monk, trying to decipher his ancient code and beat the armed assassins to the greatest treasure of all-time.