Showing results by publisher "HarperCollins" in Small Town & Rural

The warm and moving new novel from the No. 1 Bestselling author of Always and Forever. Keep a secret too long and it will creep out when you least expect it… Behind the shining windows and rose-bedecked gardens of Summer Street, there are lots of secrets. There’s the one that hard-working...

Secrets and lies hold the island together. But this summer, everything will fall apart… A tight community A forbidden love A summer to change everything… It's 1951 and Miranda's mother has just married in to one of the wealthiest families on Winthrop Island, a glamorous haven set off the New...

Sunny Palmer has returned to Christmas Notch in search of some festive inspiration for her screenplay. Isaac Kelly, former boy band heartthrob and the saddest boy in the music biz, is the latest owner of the town’s historic mansion. What better place to attempt his first holiday album than a snow-covered mansion where he can become a hermit in peace? But after they wake up together in Sunny’s dilapidated motel room after a wild night, Isaac takes a chance and asks her to stay at his place and they make a deal: they will both try to get the other’s creative juices flowing again.

Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction set in post-war Liverpool continues to move readers. A heart-warming story of family relationships and a...

Phoebe and Sam meet by chance at St Pancras station. Heading in opposite directions, both seeking their own adventures, meeting the love of their lives wasn’t part of the plan. So they make a promise: to meet again in the same place in 12 months' time if they still want to be together. But is life ever as simple as that? This is a story of what-ifs and maybes - and how one decision can change your life forever....

1932. Dunfermline, Scotland. Marion Crawford, a bright, ambitious young teacher, is ready to make her mark on the world. Until a twist of fate changes the course of her life forever… 1936. Windsor Castle. At first this ordinary woman is in a new world, working as the governess to two young princesses, in a household she calls home but where everyone is at a distance. As the course of history changes, she finds herself companion to the future Queen, and indispensable to the Crown. And slowly their needs become her needs. Their lives become hers.

The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox – the master storyteller. Sometimes you just need the courage to tell the truth… Although she's surrounded by a loving family, Marie feels lost: living with a lie can be very lonely. Marie has been carrying a secret for years...

Don't miss the brand new emotional WW2 evacuee tale from the author of An Orphan's Story and The Lost Evacuee… Finding a place of safety is just the start of his journey… When Georgie Greene is evacuated to the English countryside to keep him safe from the London Blitz, he can’t think of...

From celebrated fantasy author Den Patrick comes Witchsign, the first novel in a fresh and exciting new fantasy trilogy. It has been seventy-five years since the dragons’ rule of fire and magic was ended. Out of the ashes, the Solmindre Empire was born. Since then, the tyrannical Synod has...

In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chilled surfer vibe, it's graduation day at the elite Thornton Academy. When top student Nikki Graziola veers off script during her graduation speech, and reveals a shocking secret, it breaks open the whole community. The consequences will be felt for years to come and will send Nikki into exile, where she finds fame as a successful sportswoman, until a personal tragedy compels her to return to Alara Cove.

Escape to Cornwall this summer with the new emotional and uplifting novel from Sunday Times #1 bestselling author Fern Britton Set by the wild Atlantic coast of Cornwall comes a story about finding home in the most unlikely places. When Cordelia Jago learns she’s been left the crumbling manor...

THE SCENT OF ALMONDS AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of short stories from the No.1 international bestseller Camilla Lackberg. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. Four unmissable stories set in the Swedish fishing village of Fjallbacka and told in Camilla Lackberg's distinctive...

Die heruntergekommene Lone Heart Ranch, die Jubilee Hamilton geerbt hat, ist nach einem Desaster ihre letzte Chance für einen Neuanfang. Ihr Verbündeter dabei ist Charley Collins: ihr neuer Vorarbeiter, Single-Dad und der Einzige, der sie vor dem Ruin retten kann. Trotzdem wächst zwischen ihm und Jubilee täglich die Anziehungskraft. Gegen seinen Willen steuern sie auf eine heiße Affäre zu – und in die nächste Katastrophe in Charleys Leben? Vernachlässigung und Verzweiflung ist alles, was der junge Thatcher Jones kennt.

Sleigh bells ring. Snow is glistening. A body's in the trunk – did you kill him? Ella Chambers didn’t kill Liam Montgomery. If she had, she wouldn’t have done it outside his family’s mansion during their Christmas party. She wouldn’t have loaded his body into the trunk of her car. And...

Tansy Perkins only has room in her life for her daughter and her library. And maybe the next book to add to her collection. But after a catastrophic hurricane severely damages her library, she's forced to temporarily move into a building in the adjacent county botanic gardens, where Jack Reid—the world grouchiest gardener who rescued her and her daughter from the flood—happens to be the assistant director. 

A DS Glyn Capaldi Mystery DS Glyn Capaldi is in hospital recuperating from concussion and the after-effects of a car crash. But, worse than that, a young woman is dead. She was the passenger in the car, whom he was bringing in for questioning following a night operation in a remote rural...

Florence Stanville is a woman with a past. When she moves to Guisethorpe on the east coast of England, the townsfolk are intrigued by the glamorous and mysterious stranger, with her flame-red hair and abrupt manners. Florence doesn’t care about the gossips—she’s drawn to the peaceful seaside town by the pull of her childhood, when she lived for a brief but happy time with her beloved late mother. The riddle of those days remains, and now Florence can only snatch at half-remembered memories and shadowy figures in her dreams.

This is a beautiful, moving tale from the bestselling author of the "Flashman Papers". To the young Lady Margaret Dacre, raised in the rich security of Queen Elizabeth's court, the Scottish border was a land of blood and brutal violence, where raid and murder were commonplace, and her broad...

Summoned from his medical practice in China by a bevy of anxious aunts, Alain Roig returns to his Catalan hometown to discover he has been nominated by family members with vested interests in the ancestral property to prevent an impending marriage between his cold, ascetic cousin Xavier and Madeleine, a quiet, introspective village girl of unusual beauty. As Alain seeks to understand his cousin's complex motivations for wooing the unhappy girl, he is slowly drawn into Xavier's dark crisis of faith, the well-worn pattern of the sleepy Catalan days and the tight circle of village gossip.

It all started when we found the body. Then nothing was ever the same. The Dry meets Stand by Me and True Detective in this stunningly written tale of the darkness at the heart of a small mid-Western town and the four kids who uncover it. In the heatwave summer of 1971, four kids find a body by...