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When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider's web. Now a poor, young single mother, Hannah once escaped Cornwall to go to university. But once she married Jake and had his child, her dreams were crushed into bitter disillusion. Her husband has left her for Eve, rich and childless, and Hannah has been surviving by becoming a cleaner in London. Jinni is equally angry and bitter, and in the course of their journey the two women agree to murder each other's husbands.

Tom, single father to Hannah, is the manager of a tiny local theatre. On the same day each year, he and its colourful cast of part-time actors have staged a fantastical production just for his little girl, a moment of magic to make her childhood unforgettable. But there is another reason behind these annual shows: the very first production followed Hannah's diagnosis with a heart condition that both of them know will end her life early. And now, with Hannah a funny, tough girl of 15 on the brink of adulthood, that time is coming.

Seventeen-year-old Maddie has grown up in a boarding house on one of Blackpool's poorest streets. Life is busy, but happy, as she works alongside her mother taking care of their visitors. But when war breaks out, her happiness is shattered as her fiancé is called up to fight for his country, and suddenly Maddie's future is filled with uncertainty.

When Jake tells Lyssa it's not working, she knows he's not talking about the toaster. Her immediate reaction is to sob into her pillow and wait for Jake to come to his senses. But slowly Lyssa begins to understand that's not an option. In a bid to escape, she embarks on a trekking holiday in Nepal. Lyssa needs to get away - it never occurred to her that she might fall in love.... When it's time to go home - back to reality and a very sheepish Jake - Lyssa is faced with the hardest choice of her life.

One ordinary morning, Norah walked out of her house on Willoughby Street and never looked back. Six years later, she returns to the home she walked away from only to find another woman in her place. Fay held Norah's family together after she disappeared, she shares a bed with Norah's husband, and Norah's youngest daughter calls Fay 'Mummy'. Now that Norah has returned, everyone has questions. Where has she been? Why did she leave? And why is she back?

A single sentence was all it took to define Cammy's life. They came as her beloved artist aunt was dying, a teenage Cammy standing by her bedside: 'Did your mother ever tell you about the curse?' Cammy is warned that the women in her family are destined always to lose the one they love. She thinks nothing of it - until the day when, in her late twenties, her new boyfriend is hit by a car. Convinced she is to blame, Cammy begins to investigate the one-hundred-and-fifty-year story of a family that is both ordinary and remarkable, tragic and beautiful.

You know why she's come here: for her, the sexiest thing in the world is for you to not just strip her of her clothes, but also her power. She wants the tantalising anticipation of not knowing what's coming next when you tie her up, or stand silently behind her with a paddle in your hand.

You've only been dating the guy for a few weeks, but every time with him so far has been incredible. When you receive a text from him asking to meet you later, it comes with a very specific instruction to wear the butt plug he left with you last time. You start to walk together to the restaurant, but the temptation is too great, and he pulls you hungrily into a deserted alleyway.

It's a gorgeously sunny day, and you are feeling yourself, so you put on your best bikini and head to the park to get some Vitamin D. As you relax in your private secluded spot, an attractive couple lay down their picnic blanket next to you and start undressing each other. As the temperature starts to rise, they catch your eye and invite you and your cherry bikini to join them.

The thumping bass reverberates through your body as you dance in the sweaty living room of a house party. You can feel someone's eyes on the back of your neck and look round to catch the perpetrator. He orders you to follow him outside into the dark forest, where he pushes you up against the nearest true and growls 'I want you to be mine.'

The swing doors swoosh back and forth as you, one of the West's only female bandits, enter the salon. But just as you are about to make your way back out with an unsuspecting patron's gold watch, the large, firm hand of the Sheriff falls on your wrist and he arrests you. Back at the jail, you show the Sheriff who's really in charge around here.

The sun laps though the palm trees as your wake from an afternoon nap on a deserted beach. Your boyfriend is lying next to you, an erection tight against his swim shorts. Leaning over to reach into your bag, you lift your ass in the air and your back arches seductively as you move. He takes the bait immediately and slips his hands into your bikini top to slowly massage your nipples; you're all alone, after all.

You've made a huge mistake at work and your furious boss has demanded you meet him back at the office tomorrow - Saturday - morning. The tension rises as you work together to finish the presentation and when he refuses to let you leave, something inside you snaps. He's still mad at you; is there anything you can do to make it up to him?

Deep in the Italian countryside, your boyfriend's best friend (and his pert butt) keeps catching your eye as you lie tantalisingly close together by the pool. As the sun sets, and surrounded by twinkling candlelight, the best friend places his hand on your thigh under the dinner table. What is happening? And why do you want to find out?

You're heading to the gym to meet your personal trainer; you're a reluctant exerciser but she's got you coming back every week. As the intensity rises, and the session gets sweatier, you find yourselves in extremely close proximity during the final stretches. She's worked you so hard, you'll need to take a shower to cool down.

A mass of sweaty bodies jump around you as your favourite rock star moves hypnotically around the stage. He catches your eye, and although the entire stadium is singing the words in unison, you know he is singing them directly to you. Later, you feel a tap on your shoulder from security: he wants you to come backstage.

The summers spent at Roseland, the sprawling ancestral home of her best friend, Eloise, were among the happiest of Cathy's life. Tucked away on the Cornish coastline and brimming with history, Roseland seemed to belong to another century. Cathy has barely been back since Eloise's death a decade ago. So she is shocked when Jack, the love of Eloise's life and father of her children, announces that he is getting married, and that the wedding will take place at Roseland.

1916. East London. When sixteen-year-old Clover Cooper's mother, Iris, calls her home from work one day, the last thing Clover expects is to find that her mother has given birth to another baby. After all, Clover's unpleasant father, Sidney, has been in France for longer than nine months. Banned from questions, and bound to secrecy by her beloved mother, Clover leaves her infant brother at a nunnery for safekeeping, despite her heartbreak at parting with him. But when Sidney unexpectedly returns from the Western Front, life at home suddenly feels more dangerous than a battlefield.

Alice is a working hard to provide for her daughter, Mollie. But it's a challenge juggling her job alongside her duties as a single Mum in Leeds: a city she barely knows. Her neighbours keep to themselves and as much as she longs for a friend to rely on, she knows that things don't work out that way. Bill has lived on Leodis Street for eighty years. It's where he was born, began his married life and eventually cared for his wife in her final days. Since Sally's death, Bill's home is a place of solitude, his talisman against an unrecognisable world.

West Virginia,1897. When young Zona Heaster Shue dies only a few months after her wedding, her mother Mary Jane becomes convinced that Zona was murdered - and by none other than her husband, Trout. But when Trout is put on trial, no one believes he could have done it, apart from Mary Jane and Zona's best friend Lucy, who was always suspicious of Trout. As the trial raises to fever pitch and the men of Greenbrier County stand aligned against them, Mary Jane and Lucy must decide whether to reveal Zona's greatest secret in the service of justice.