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Millionaire banker Marcus Canning has decided that it's time to get an heir - and a spare - which means he's on the lookout for a wife. Lucy knows that she's been taken by Marcus for convenience but she can't resist him and his passionate love-making. But sex is all it is for Marcus - until he discovers that his wife is being blackmailed by another man.

It's 1963 and Sally Mitchell, the well-bred daughter of a wealthy New Zealand sheep farmer, is on her way to England with her friend Pru. When the young women stop over in Sydney their plans go awry. Sally impulsively takes a job as a governess at Barra Creek, and when the mail plane that flew her there takes off she finds herself left in a different world.

Geneva Tibbetson's association with the Earl of Ashby goes back to her childhood, when he gave her a pendant with a blue stone. He told her that if she used it to look at a new moon through it and the landscape turned the colour of amaranth, then anything she wished would come true.

Klaus-Pierre is the love-child of a young Frenchwoman and a senior, married German officer serving with the forces occupying Paris. Sent to live with a maiden aunt, Klaus-Pierre is surrounded by hostility until his father's family take him to Germany.

A story of passengers on a Dutch transport ship plying between Singapore and Manila in the 1930's.

Shannon Bodine, a tough, ambitious New York designer, thought she'd had the perfect childhood. But when she discovers that she was born of her mother's fleeting love affair in Ireland, her past is suddenly shattered. Torn between the life she knows and the need to understand her heritage, Shannon travels to County Clare to meet her half-sisters. They are family by blood, but can they learn to become a family in their hearts?

The story of the lives and loves of two families who live on adjoining stations in the lonely outback of Australia.

A divorced American woman travelling through Italy, Marlena de Blasi thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet, within a few months she quits her job, sells her house, kisses her two grown-up children goodbye and moves to Venice to marry a virtual stranger. An honest, comic look at two middle-aged people building a life together.

When Jocasta Oaks arrives in the Yorkshire village of Coppitts Green she is excited at taking up her new job as assistant schoolteacher - and at being reunited with her fiance, Peter Ryder. But Peter has disappeared without explanation to anyone.