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When self-confessed scaredycat Jo Morgan survives a hit and run accident, she realises she has beaten the odds. Maybe a bit of living dangerously is just what she needs. But unlearning a lifetime of fears and phobias won't be easy.

The timeless tale continues... The most popular and beloved American historical novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is unparalleled in its portrayal of men and women at once larger than life but as real as ourselves. Now bestselling writer Alexandra Ripley brings us back to Tara and reintroduces us to the characters we remember so well: Rhett, Ashley, Mammy, Suellen, Aunt Pittypat, and, of course, Scarlett.

At eleven, Pip MacKenzie's life has already been touched by tragedy - a terrible accident that plunged her mother, Ophelie, into inconsolable grief. But on a foggy summer day, on a beach near San Francisco, Pip meets someone who fills her grey world with colour and light.

Elizabeth and Betsy knew each other as school-children. When they meet again in later life, one is safely married, the other most unsafely partnered.

Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom. Three hundred miles south in San Francisco police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job.

When Anna Rasini sees a painting of a Mediterranean street scene in the window of an Oxford art gallery her curiosity is aroused, for her mother owns a very similar work, bearing the initials N.K. Her early enquiries suggest that both works are by a Greek artist.

Raised by her mother's former nanny, eighteen-year-old Ella learns that she is, in fact, one of the Polmars of Porthminster Hall. She then decides to contact her family and try to learn what became of her mother and brother, who fled to France not long after Ella was born.

Twins Tanwen and Donna Evans are as different as chalk and cheese. Tanwen is pretty, a bubbly extrovert - but selfish and as sharp as a needle. Donna is plain, placid and shy, although warm-hearted. 1924, when the girls are fourteen, their mother insists both become apprentices at The Cardiff Drapers. Donna meets tall, handsome Dylan Wallis and falls in love. However, Tanwen sets her heart on Dylan with disastrous consequences for them all.

Cornwall, 1854: Alice Rowe is rescued from the workhouse by the Rev. Arnold Markham to work in his parsonage as a housemaid. When the Reverend dies of a sudden heart attack, she faces an uncertain future.

Laura Cadman had always assumed she would marry Edmund Shaw, the son of her father's partner, and keep the Shaw and Cadman name alive. But Edmund's violent refusal is just the beginning. When Jabez Shaw dies, Edmund takes advantage and cheats him.