THE SECOND HUSBAND
Louise Candlish
When Davis Calder moves next door to Kate Easton and her two children, devastation is about to be unleashed. With Kate struggling to accept her teenage daughter Roxy’s independence and tensions between Kate and her ex-husband Alistair still very much alive, there’s enough family drama to go around already. Before they know it, clever, charismatic Davis is the only one who seems able to keep the peace. Soon Kate has fallen in love and agreed to be his wife. At last she dares hope she has the happy ending she deserves …
Some desperate glory
Emily Tesh
All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she is one of the best warriors of her generation. Then Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons, and she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands. Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr must escape from everything she’s ever known. If she succeeds, she will find a universe far more complicated and far more wondrous than she could ever have imagined.
THE FIGURINE
Victoria Hislop
Concealed beneath the dust sheets in the Athens apartment she has inherited from her grandparents, Helena McCloud discovers a hidden hoard of rare antiquities, amassed during a dark period in Greek history when the city and its people were gripped by a brutal military dictatorship.
Helena’s fascination for archaeology, ignited by a summer spent on a dig on an Aegean island, tells her that she must return these precious artefacts to their rightful place. Only then will she be able to allay the darkness of the past and find the true meaning of home – for cultural treasures and for herself.
The Ghost Cat
Alex Howard
Early morning, 1902. At 7/7 Marchmont Crescent, Eilidh the charlady tips coal into a fire grate and proceeds to set it alight. Overhearing, Grimalkin the cat ambles over to curl up against the welcome heat and lick his favourite human’s
hand. But this is to be his last day on earth … before he becomes the Ghost Cat. Follow Grimalkin as he witnesses the changes of the next 120 years, prowling unseen among the inhabitants of an Edinburgh tenement, while unearthing some startling revelations about the mystery of existence, the unstoppable march of time and the true meaning of feline companionship.
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