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December 2018, and free-spirited Influencers Bo Loxley and her partner, Zac, are living a life of wanderlust, travelling the globe and sharing their adventures with their millions of fans. Booked to spend Christmas in the Norwegian fjords, they set up home in a remote farm owned by enigmatic mountain guide Anders and his fierce grandmother, Signy. Surrounded by snowy peaks and frozen falls, everything should be perfect. But the camera can lie, and with every new post, the ‘perfect’ life Zac and Bo are portraying is diverging from the truth.

It had been a make-or-break holiday for their marriage, but Natasha and Rob’s rekindled romance is short-lived when their daughter’s beloved soft toy disappears on the journey home. As Natasha comforts the distraught child, she turns to social media for help. Miraculously, the toy is found, but it has become the lucky mascot of a man named Duffy, who is thousands of miles away. When Duffy promises to keep Natasha updated with pictures, the pair begin a correspondence that soon becomes more meaningful to both of them.

Cassie loves Henry. Henry loves Cassie. With a Tiffany ring on her finger, all that Cassie has left to do is plan the wedding. It should be so simple, but when Henry pushes for a date, Cassie pulls back. Henry's wild, young cousin, Gem, has no such hesitations and is racing to the aisle at a sprint, determined to marry in the Cornish church where her parents were wed. But the family is set against it, and Cassie resolves to stop the wedding from going ahead.

Somewhere along the cobbled streets of Paris, an apartment lies thick with dust and secrets: full of priceless artworks hidden away for decades. High-flying fine art agent Flora from London, more comfortable with the tension of a million-pound auction than a cosy candlelit dinner for two, is called in to assess these suddenly discovered treasures. As an expert in her field, she must trace the history of each painting and discover who has concealed them for so long.

In London, the snow is falling and Christmas is just around the corner - but Allegra Fisher barely has time to notice. She's pitching for the biggest deal of her career and can't afford to fail. And when she meets attractive stranger Sam Kemp on the plane to the meeting, she can't afford to lose her focus either. She learned to shut off her emotions long ago and only her sister and best friend Isobel knows why. But when Allegra finds herself up against Sam for the bid, their passion quickly turns sour.

It’s three days before Christmas and just starting to snow… Against her better judgement, Libby Pugh has been persuaded by her best friend to stop in on their university reunion on her way back from a wedding in North Yorkshire with her boyfriend, Max. The host is Archie Templeton, the playboy of their group, who has finally inherited his father’s title and estate – even if the latter is more stately heap than palace. Libby is surprised at how good it feels to catch up with old. The night is a great success but when they come to leave, the road is now impassable.

Haunted by a past she can't escape, Laura Cunningham desires nothing more than to keep her world small and precise - her quiet relationship and growing jewellery business are all she needs to get by. Until the day when Rob Blake walks into her studio and commissions a necklace that will tell his enigmatic wife Cat's life in charms.

When Lee first came to Amsterdam, it was with a newborn baby and a secret. Five years later, her life is approaching normal: her career as a celebrity photographer is flourishing, her son, Jasper, is growing up, and they are enjoying the run-up to Christmas with their tight circle of close friends. But all this changes one morning when Lee finds a book in the basket of her bicycle - and scrawled inside it, a desperate message. Who left it for her, and why? Lee feels compelled to help and tracks down the book’s author, Sam.

From the internationally best-selling author of Christmas in the Snow comes another spellbindingly beautiful story for winter. Christmas on Primrose Hill is a spellbinding, emotional and romantic tale from the best-selling author of Christmas at Tiffany's, Karen Swan. On Primrose Hill... Twinkling lights brighten London's Primrose Hill as Christmas nears - but for Nettie Watson, it's not parties and presents that she wants.

Bestsellerautorin Karen Swan über rätselhafte Geheimnisse und romantische Verwicklungen vor karibischer Kulisse. Weiße Sandstrände, strahlend blauer Himmel und das satte Grün des Regenwalds: Für die Londoner Kinderärztin Tara ist Costa Rica das Paradies auf Erden. Aber seit zehn Jahren ist sie nicht mehr dort gewesen – seit ihre Jugendliebe Alex ihr das Herz gebrochen hat. Erst eine große Familienfeier bringt Tara dazu, ins Land ihrer Träume zurückzukehren.

Die neue Winter-Romance von Bestellerautorin Karen Swan. Als Lee vor fünf Jahren nach Amsterdam kam, hatte sie ein neugeborenes Baby und ein großes Geheimnis im Gepäck. Inzwischen hat sie ein neues Zuhause und viele gute Freunde gefunden. Eines Morgens liegt in ihrem Fahrradkorb ein Buch mit einer hastig hineingekritzelten Nachricht. Lee macht den Autor, Sam, ausfindig, und zwischen den beiden funkt es sofort. Doch als der erste Schnee fällt und Amsterdams Grachten zufrieren, wird Lee erneut mit ihrem Geheimnis konfrontiert.

Die neue Winter-Romance von Bestellerautorin Karen Swan. Als Lee vor fünf Jahren nach Amsterdam kam, hatte sie ein neugeborenes Baby und ein großes Geheimnis im Gepäck. Inzwischen hat sie ein neues Zuhause und viele gute Freunde gefunden. Eines Morgens liegt in ihrem Fahrradkorb ein Buch mit einer hastig hineingekritzelten Nachricht. Lee macht den Autor, Sam, ausfindig, und zwischen den beiden funkt es sofort. Doch als der erste Schnee fällt und Amsterdams Grachten zufrieren, wird Lee erneut mit ihrem Geheimnis konfrontiert.

Der neue Liebesroman von Bestsellerautorin Karen Swan. Bell liebt ihr Leben in Stockholm und ihren Job als Nanny bei Familie Mogert. Vor allem aber liebt sie den schwedischen Sommer, den sie alle zusammen auf einer kleinen Schäreninsel verbringen. Doch in diesem Jahr ist alles anders: Seit einem verwirrenden Anruf ein paar Wochen zuvor ist die Stimmung angespannt, und Bell ahnt, dass die Mogerts ihr etwas verheimlichen. An Mittsommer findet sie Trost und Geborgenheit in den starken Armen von Emil, dem schönsten Mann, der ihr je begegnet ist. Aber auch Emil hat seine Geheimnisse.

'This was where her dreams drifted to if she didn't blot her nights out with drink; this was where her thoughts settled if she didn't fill her days with chat. She remembered this tiny, remote foreign village on a molecular level and the sight of it soaked into her like water into sand, because this was where her old life had ended and her new one had begun.'

A gripping, festive novel, Christmas Under the Stars by Karen Swan reveals the devastating power of secrets. Worlds apart. A love without limit. In the snow-topped mountains of the Canadian Rockies, Meg and Mitch are living their dream. Just weeks away from their wedding, they work and play with Tuck and Lucy, their closest and oldest friends. Meg and Lucy are as close as sisters - much to Meg's sister's dismay - and Tuck and Mitch have successfully turned their passion for snowboarding into a booming business.