Avalon by Mindee
Arnett
Seventeen-year-old Jeth Seagrave,
the leader of a ragtag team of teenage mercenaries, skirts the line between
honor and the law in an attempt to win freedom for his sister and himself in
the form of their parents' old spaceship, Avalon –Summary.
The Chocolate Money by Ashley
Prentice Norton
After
being raised in 1980s Chicago by a promiscuous mother, Bettina Ballentyne, the
daughter of a chocolate heiress struggles to walk the line between
self-preservation and self-destruction at an East Coast prep school –Summary.
Cocktails for Three by
Madeline Wickham
Roxanne,
Maggie and Candice, three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and
furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a month. A
chance encounter in the cocktail bar sets in train an extraordinary set of
events which upsets all their lives and almost destroys their friendship –Summary.
The Gatecrasher by
Madeline Wickham
Stunning
forty-year-old Fleur crashes funerals in pursuit of wealthy widowers to
swindle. When she meets Richard, she finds herself enveloped by his closeknit
family--they even welcome her forlorn teenage daughter into the fold. But
someone else is also after Richard's fortune –Summary.
Lily-Josephine by Kate
Saunders
Lily-Josephine
has a talent for love. Willful, enchanting and passionate, she was the centre
of a charmed universe -- until her foolish, indulgent father married again. One
idyllic summer evening, in 1941, Lily ran from her jealous stepmother. She
escaped to find sanctuary, but instead discovered a love far greater than she
had ever known –Summary.
Perfect Proposal by Katie
Ford
Sophie
Apperly has spent her whole life pleasing others and she has had enough.
Eagerly swapping Little England for the Big Apple, Sophie heads off to New York
to spend some time with a friend. From the moment she hits the bright lights of
Manhattan Sophie is determined to enjoy every minute of her adventure. When
fate throws her together with Matilda, a New York socialite, Sophie clashes
with her grandson; an arrogant young man who later follows Sophie back to
England with an unconventional proposal –Summary.
Project Cain by
Geoffrey Girard
"Fifteen-year-old
Jeff Jacobson learns that not only was he cloned from infamous serial killer
Jeffrey Dahmer's blood as part of a top-secret government experiment, but there
are other clones like him and he is the only one who can track them down before
it is too late" –Publisher.
Summer With My Sister by Lucy
Diamond
“Polly has always been the high-flier of the family, with the
glamorous city lifestyle to match. Clare is a single mum with two children,
struggling to make ends meet in a ramshackle cottage. The two sisters are poles
apart and barely on speaking terms. But then Polly’s fortunes change
unexpectedly and her world comes crashing down. Left penniless and with nowhere
to go, she’s forced back to the village where she and Clare grew up, and the
sisters find themselves living together for the first time in years. With an
old flame reappearing for Polly, a blossoming new career for Clare and a
long-buried family secret in the mix, sparks are sure to fly. Unless the two
women have more in common than they first thought?” –Back cover.
Summer’s Child by Diane
Chamberlain
Early
on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina
home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea--an abandoned
newborn baby. When the infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by
Daria's loving family. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria. Now,
twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal young woman whom
Daria continues to protect. But when Rory Taylor, a friend from Daria's
childhood and now a television producer, returns at Shelly's request to do a
story about the circumstances surrounding her birth, something precarious
shifts in the small town of Kill Devil Hills..." –Back cover.