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In the middle of the Indian Ocean the biggest, most ambitious engineering project in history is under way. In this ocean hole, Anna Spires and her team of architects aim to build a new and better world. Some share her vision, some say she must be stopped.

The bottle, dropped on a warm summer evening, contained a message that would change two people forever.. It will take the reader on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories and reminds us of both the heartbreaking fragility and strength of love

Homeless, penniless, lonely Lucy Leighton finds employment as companion to eminent journalist Clarissa Bourke-Rathbone. Lucy accompanies Clarissa to Capri, home of reclusive writer Conrad Morheim, and so begins Lucy's journey to self discovery.

A powerful romance of three generations of Cornish folk and their sometimes imprudent need to love and be loved.

Bettina, unwanted by her mother, is sent to a missionary aunt. There the dangers she faces are overcome with the help of a tall dark stranger.

Forced to accompany her uncle on a voyage to Calcutta, Sita attempts to throw herself overboard. She is saved by a mysterious stranger. They meet again when he rescues her from kidnappers and together they save the Nazim's life before her hero disappears

Charles Waterston's marriage ends abruptly and he is sent to work in New York. He visits the country before his job starts, and ends up staying in a haunted chateau where he learns to let go of the past and move into a liberating future.

The war with Napoleon won, the Earl of Hellington begins another campaign, the pursuit of a pretty yet infuriating young milliner who evades all his attempts to make her his mistress.

In 1814, Dorothea Brande leaves her quiet Devonshire home and accompanies her officer husband, Charles, to the colony of New South Wales. To escape the harshness and brutality of existence, and with help from her manservant she develops an English garden

Contemporary saga depicting the terrible consequences of obsessional love and the happiness which can come from eventual maturity.