Alba always felt like an outsider. She hardly knows her Italian mother and her father acts as if Valentina never existed. The discovery of her mother's portrait sends the girl back to Italy to find the truth about Valentina where a tale of deception and betrayal is waiting to be discovered that take[...]

Discovering a priceless, unknown painting by Titian among his late mother's possessions, Misha recalls his unwavering bond with his mother, the childhood traumas in German-occupied France that rendered him mute, and his abandonment by two fathers, challenges that prompt his journey to Bordeaux to di[...]

Wonderfully wise Santa Montefiore will capture your heart with this "bittersweet and thought-provoking"* novel about a modern wife who must ask herself, Would I risk everything for love?

A wife who has forgotten her own beauty and allure. A distant, distracted husband. A smart, candlelit[...]

They had built their lives in this grand old house, its walls encompassing their family and their secrets. Nestled in the sweeping hills they have always known, the house is part of their history, their heritage. But these four walls also hold a secret.When Lord Frampton dies in a skiing accident, a[...]

Summer is not complete without a new novel from top ten bestelling author Santa Montefiore

Summer is not complete without a new novel from top ten bestelling author Santa Montefiore. Ellen Trawton is running away from it all - quite literally. She is due to get married to a man she doesn't love, her job is dragging her down and her interfering mother is getting on her nerves. So she esca[...]

A family rocked by tragedy, a love that lives through time, a story that will stay in your heart...Dorset, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on a beautiful rural estate. The only child of the beekeeper, she knows her place and her future - until her father dies unexpectedly and leaves her bereft and[...]

An eccentric aristocrat is savagely murdered in his Italian palazzo at the end of WW2. Twenty years later, this unsolved crime touches the life of Alba, a hedonistic girl who lives on a houseboat in Sixties Chelsea. Between these two distinctive times runs a thread of love, decadence and betrayal [...]

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