If you have picked on this book, it probably means you could do with some advice. My message can be life changing, and it comes from someone who has lived not only the tragedy but also the fairytale ending.

HOLIDAY HOMECOMING Talk about the Christmas Spirit! When Carl Merrick fell asleep at his desk on Christmas Eve, his business partner made an unexpected appearance in his dreams—in baby-doll pj's and a come-hither grin! Now he was looking at Marley Jacobs in a whole new way…. By the time the night was over, Carl would have three more visitors. Miss Hathaway, his cranky grade school teacher. Uncle Ralph, the used-car salesman. And, worst of all, Stewart Cosgrove, the new guy at work with a smarmy smile and a yen for Marley. What could these people teach him? And if Marley was the reward, could he learn it by midnight?

When her tycoon father suddenly dies, Corinne Marchand throws herself into running his couture empire based in Paris. Having been abandoned by her playboy lover Philippe de Rochmort three years earlier, she's also mistrustful of men and convinced that she is better off alone - so when she meets attractive merchant banker Miles Corsley, she refuses to give him the time of day, let alone a date. Corinne's younger sister, model Yolande, has loved Philippe's brother Yves all her life, and they are to be married - but after meeting bad boy film star Patrick Dubuisson she breaks off her engagement and embarks on a passionate affair in Hollywood. When Philippe finally returns to France and shocking secrets are revealed, Corinne has to decide if she will trust Miles with more than her money as they battle to save her company from a hostile takeover - while Yolande learns the hard way that Hollywood glamour doesn't always bring happiness. Paris is the city of love, but will it ever be in vogue for the Marchand girls again?

The modern world has been transformed into a land of myth, a magical place where fabulous beasts soar on the air currents, a terrifying place where shape-shifting monsters stalk the cities. Mankind’s days appear numbered. Our only hope—the Brothers and Sisters of Dragons —are scattered and broken after a terrible defeat. Their last chance may lie in the great court of the old gods, reached by an otherworldly ship filled with fantastical and frightening creatures. But if our champions fail, the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain will dawn, and the dark god Balor will usher in the eternal night.

Jane da Silva knows a Cole Porter tune and a silky voice will only carry you so far through the urbane cabarets of Europe. So when the young widow's "eccentric" Uncle Harold dies, she jets back to the States to claim the fortune she dearly needs to ransom her Visa card. Unfortunately, Jane finds her inheritance conditional and her situation critical. It seems Uncle Harold and his old-codger cronies are part of a secret society dedicated to aiding and abetting offbeat lost causes, and Jane must carry on her uncle's "work" if she expects to see anything resembling a windfall. But just how far will the chic expatriate go when her "hopeless case" forces her to mingle with a sleaze-ball lawyer, a scheming psychiatrist, a sinister New Age cult, a stone-cold corpse -- and a ruthless murderer?

Friends and enemies reunited! A brilliantly entertaining novel from the author of THE SECRET SHOPPER'S REVENGE. Your school days are supposed to be the best days of your life - and Tracey Mortimer has no argument with that. Sixteen years ago she was the most popular girl in school, ruled her own gang, and dated the cutest boy in her year. Now it's all rather different: she's 33, stuck in a dull marriage that's only tolerable because her husband is rarely at home. And although she dearly loves her two children, a life of kids TV and alphabetti spaghetti is hardly exciting... Then Tracey spots an advert from a TV company wanting to make a reality-style show on a perfect school reunion - giving Tracey the chance to re-live the good old days. But not all her old school classmates remember their school days quite as Tracey does. Tracey made Suzanne Sharp's life hell - so what better way to get her own back than revenge, live on national television...

Part I: An Odyssey of Childhood & Early Youth is a fictional account, together with personal, dramatic license, of the era of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War II. It focuses on the joys and fears of children and families in desperate times. Part II: War and The Home Front is a seamless continuation, focusing on fears and challenges of the familiar, principal character under fire in the Pacific. This fictional narrative, generating comrades in arms, tracks a Marine unit during World War II. Parallel are the same familiar characters who are dedicated to the home front's war effort and display loyalty and courage in crises