THE MAKING OF MINTY MALONE

BEHAVING BADLY

All men are beasts…or so Miranda Sweet believes. As an animal behaviourist, she can get inside the heads of deluded Dalmatians and introverted iguanas, but she can’t work out why the men in her life behave so badly. But can she keep the whole male species at bay for ever? When a delicious photographer comes into her life, Miranda starts letting her guard down, but then her past starts to catch up with her. Now, she has to face up to her own behaviour, which hasn’t always been as sweet as she’d like to pretend…

FORGET ME NOT

After the sudden death of her mother, Anna Temple realises she needs to live for the moment and pursue her dream of becoming a garden designer. Swapping hedge funds for herbaceous borders, and shares for scented stocks, she says goodbye to City life for a fresh start in the country. But on the eve of her sparkling new future she meets the gorgeous Xan and their chance encounter changes her world in more ways than she could ever imagined, enter baby Milly. Juggling her new business with the joys and fears of motherhood is a struggle, especially alone and when Anna unearths a long-buried family secret, skeletons tumble from the closet. Suddenly nothing is as it seems, past or present.

OUT OF THE BLUE

Faith has arranged a surprise party to celebrate fifteen years of marriage to her publisher husband Peter. They have a lot to be thankful for, with an enduring partnership that many of their contemporaries are only just themselves embarking upon. But a casual, barbed comment by her bitchy magazine editor friend Lily makes Faith wonder whether her world is as wonderful as it seems on the surface. As the kernel of unease swells and begins to burgeon inside her, Faith finds herself on a quest that leads to a shake-up of everything she holds dear – but which, in the end, enables her to reforge her life.

A QUESTION OF LOVE

When Laura Quick finds herself accidentally hosting a quirky quiz show on national TV, nothing prepares her for one of the contestants ? her ex-boyfriend Luke. She?s still coming to terms with the loss of her husband Nick, and Laura finds more questions than answers as she tries to work out what went so wrong and whether to risk everything on Luke for a second time...

THE TRIALS OF TIFFANY TROTT

Tiffany Trott is attractive, eligible and sparky – so why is she (as her bossy best friend puts it) ‘a complete failure with men’? Stung into indignant action, she decides she’ll hunt down Mr Right herself. But as she ponders her puzzling lack of a life partner, Tiffany watches her friends face problems of their own – and begins to wonder whether marriage and motherhood is quite what she wants after all…