House of Romance — Multiple Authors

To Saffron and Felix, the quiet countryside of the Welsh border promises to be the ideal setting for a new craft business. But there are still some folk who remain suspicious of 'London artists' and are ready with spiteful gossip to make life uncomfo...

Rather than force herself on a husband that does not love her Susan moves to Cornwell where she makes a new life. Then Glyn stumbles upon their hideaway and discovers he has a son. Can she believe he loves her or should she stay with her new friends ...

Looking forward to a romantic honeymoon in Tunisia, Abbie Grant finds herself taking an unscheduled trip across the Sahara Desert in search of her missing husband. Although she has always yearned to travel, Abbie soon discovers that the desert can...

Eleanor Jefferson is not sure whether she is a widow or a deserted wife, and so cannot safely remarry. And she enjoys the company of local businessman Grant Appleton, but he and her young son, Phillip, seem unable to get along. While Eleanor vacillat...

• Oct-1985
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Kathryn Davis goes to Austria in search of a folk tale for her next book, but when she wakes in a guest-house in a small village, she remembers driving across mountains at dusk ... then nothing more until the present. The following day brings the fir...

• 1971
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Rima Lawford has lived a quiet life in a small seaside town, keeping house for her mother and brother, her early ambitions for a career in music shattered by her father's death. The arrival in the neighborhood of a world-famous pianist, who takes ...

• Nov-1980
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"What is it about you that's so like Iris?" Roger Blacker said, a note of anger in his voice. From their first meeting, Gale Garrett found his attitude troubled her. What was the mystery that surrounded the death of Roger's fiancee? Gale had retur...

Janet flew to Madeira from Scotland to join Alan, at his request, hoping to marry him. But Alan had changed in the 2 years since he had been home. And then there was Luis Castillho da Silva, stuffy and superrelious according to Alan's friends. To...

After leaving college, Laurie Peters unwittingly settles into a lifestyle devoid of associations with men, little realising that her attitude stems from an incident in her life that has been concealed in a web of lies, and of which she has no recolle...

Liz McGregor, struggling to bring up her eight-year-old daughter alone, is surprised when her boss asks her to marry him. It is an unromantic proposal, but Liz, beset with difficulties, is tempted to accept it. Then Felix suggests a honeymoon cruise ...

Kate Vernon is summoned to Spain by her sister, Louise, who has been frightened by a strange incident at the ranch where she lives with her husband, Roberto Segura. As soon as she arrives at the hacienda, Kate discovers that someone is trying to h...

Andrew said, “I’ve no intention of getting married for a long time. At least until I’m thirty-five.” Sarah replies, “I’m not going to get married. Ever. Not even when I’m thirty-five like you.” With this, any romantic notions co...

The road accident happened near her aunt's home in the country, so it was only natural for Heather to stay at Greengates for convalescence and out-patient treatment. But she was astonished to find herself the object of a stranger's violent an...

Helen's first meeting with Hugh Rainer is spoiled by their antagonism over the right of way on the narrow lane along which they are both driving. She does not meet him again until his mother is admitted as a patient to the village hospital where ...

When seaman Tom Dorset arrived in Smithport, Massachusetts in 1871, there were whispers of a dead man in his recent past. Lynn Harding had heard the gossip too, and against her better judgement, she went with him to a mountain lake and he touched her...

When hard and calculating Chaney Lincoln met the Morrison’s, father and daughter, little did he know it was to be the first day of an entirely new and exciting life, with a love story too. He found Natalie Morrison more than a match in their confli...

Jessica's adoration of the man she had married seemed to imprison her in a crystal cage. Trapped by her dependence on the handsome actor who moulded her into the kind of wife he wanted, she could see what she needed for her happiness but could not re...