In 1887 Rose Victoria Adams resolves to find a better life. Her home beside the river is comfortless, her father unloving and dictatorial. As a certified teacher in the village school, she tries to stop the children fighting, suggesting new ideas abo...
In late nineteenth-century Devon, Hester Redding longs to experience the excitement and new ideas that the approaching century brings but family responsibilities tie her to an arranged marriage and a quiet life in the countryside. A talented artist, ...
Jessica Rowden is a determined young woman ahead of her time. When her father dies, he leaves behind the mystery of the Katie Starr, a ship that disappeared years before. And that’s not the only mystery; Jess finds a fine lady’s fan hidden in her...
Leaving the bustle of London behind to return home to Dartmoor after the death of her father, Alison Bourne finds her legacy in danger of slipping away. Her stepmother Julia has unwelcome plans for her childhood home. The nursery her father had built...
Gracie Tillman is well known in Mill Creek Crossing as the sassy waitress at Stella's diner. But what many people don't know is she has virtually no family left, and the one person she should have in her life is her sister, Eva. Unfortunately, Eva di...
Anna Hoskins’ uneventful life on the smallholding she loves is completely shattered when she discovers Ray, her late husband, once had a mistress. To add to her distress, an unknown young woman, claiming to be the daughter of Ray’s affair, sudden...
Recently widowed, Marion Thomas soon becomes fond of her new neighbor’s disabled son, Eddie, while she is working with him to create a herb garden out of a patch of waste land. Her life changes dramatically as she gets to know Eddie’s father, Mik...
Rachel Swann takes a sabbatical from her London floristry job to come home and temporarily manage the family plant nursery. But then it emerges that her uncle has also asked the globetrotting plant collector Benjamin Hunter to do the self-same task! ...
After the death of her dear Aunt Jem, Carla Marshall inherits Thorn House, the ancient country manor where she spent a happy childhood. But her arrival brings with it fresh problems. She meets and falls in love with local bookseller Dan Eastern - but...
When Goldie Smith spies the portrait of the three Crosby girls for the first time, belonging to her dear Great-aunt Mary and painted long ago by an enigmatic local artist, she can't help but wonder at the history behind it. She also takes an instant ...
Isabella and Marcus have what appears to be the perfect marriage. But what people don't know is what happens behind closed doors. Beyond the mirror of perfection lies a deep, twisted, evil man that takes his anger out on the one he is supposed to lov...
Forced to give up her job as a travel courier to run the family antique shop when her brother becomes ill, Lisa Dorant returns to Devon. No sooner has she settled in than Lisa finds herself with two admirers, one an old friend, the other a handsome s...
Daphne Chandler had always been like a grandmother to Melanie, so when she falls ill, Melanie promises to take care of her famous garden. As her love for the peaceful corner grows, so do her feelings for the handsome stranger who has come on the scen...
Jess is a botanical artist, dedicated to her work painting herbs and flowers. When she meets photographer Daniel, she is immediately attracted to him, but she is struck by the way he always views life through his lens, and never truly experiences it....
Kim takes a job on Dartmoor, trying to hide from her unhappy past. Temporarily parted from her son, Roger, and among unfriendly country neighbours, Kim finds the loneliness of the moor threatening, especially when her new boss's girlfiend, Fiona, se...
Gill's uncle leaves her the family house and a share in his boat-building business, but should she leave London to live in a sleepy Devon seaside village? Two men influence her decision - cousin Graham, who has made it clear she will be unwelcome, an...
For Rowan Saxby, the flowering of her dead father’s precious hybrid plant was a dream come true. It came too late to save the fortunes of Saxby’s Cottage Garden, however. Forced to sell out to able businessman Connell Brandt, Rowan was brought in...