COLETTE CADDLE - BETWEEN THE SHEETS - 5TH MAY
Dana De Lacey, bestselling romance novelist, has the world at her feet. The words on the page flow easily; an exciting new book deal beckons, and life at home in Dublin is good. But Dana’s self-confidence and success depend on one person: her gorgeous husband, Gus. Without him, she has no fall-back. No children, no close family of her own to call upon. When Gus leaves her, she is devastated. The words fail to come. The alcohol flows too freely. She cannot sleep. Then her estranged brother, Ed, arrives to take care of her out of the blue, and memories which she has buried for many years begin to surface: startling recollections of a childhood and a little girl long-forgotten, which inspire Dana at last to write from the heart. Which Dana was it that Gus walked out on — the glamorous party girl, whose romantic novels always have a happy ending? Or someone with a different name, whose life tells a very different story? Forced to face up to the past, can she find the real Dana, recover her career, and try to make Gus love her for the person she really is?

ZOE BARNES - RETURN TO SENDER - 7TH MAY
The double christening of her sisters’ two kids gets Holly Bennett thinking. She would seriously love to have a baby one day, but for the first time in ages being adopted has become a stumbling block for her.

Does she want to start a family of her own when she doesn’t even know who she really is or where she’s come from? With an on-off boyfriend who she’s swiftly falling out of lust with, Holly decides to move back to her home town to be near her adoptive family. Who knows, it may be the change she needs to get her life back on track - and the place to be if she wants to begin tracing her roots. But these roots prove trickier to trace than Holly has expected.

That is, until she hires her own oh-so-sexy private investigator to take charge…

REBECCA FARNWORTH - VALENTINE - 7TH MAY
Will a shocking secret cause a rising star to fall? Valentine Fleming has always dreamed of being an actress but after years of failed auditions and broken dreams, her hopes are fading fast - so too is her self-esteem - and her only chance of landing a starring role is leading a theatre group for a group of disinterested, Lynx-drenched, hormonal teenagers. So when she gets a call from her agent telling her she has a part in a play with a sexy leading man, she’s over the moon. She’s not packing her bags for the Hollywood hills just yet but could this be the lucky break she has been looking for? But just as it seems that her luck might be set to change and Valentine starts to imagine her name in lights once more, she learns a shocking truth that someone very close to her has kept from her for too long, and the life Valentine once knew no longer seems her own. The new man in her life challenges her feelings for someone in her past and gives her a taste of the heady high life of star-studded, red carpet premieres but amongst it all, she struggles to find love with Mr Right and discovers too that old habits die hard.

KATE MORRIS - THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH - 7TH MAY

Meet Ellie. She’s been married to Jack for seven years, has two occasionally-adorable-but-mostly-demanding children and is about to open a café with her friend, Tilda. But Jack is a soap actor whose long-running character has been killed off, leaving him hanging around the house and getting under the feet of Petra, an au pair too glamorous for her own good – even if she is a dab hand with glitter and glue. Meanwhile Ellie’s excitement about the café is making her marriage seem dreary in comparison and when the gorgeous Mark moves in next door (with a wife in tow, admittedly) she asks herself when she and Jack went past their sell-by-date. How can she put the sizzle back into her love life without breaking the rules? And is there really something better out there – or is she just scratching a classic seven year itch?

NIAMH GREENE - LETTERS TO A LOVE RAT - 7 MAY
What do you do when the love of your life turns out to be a good-for-nothing love rat? a) Pour your heart out to him in private letters that he’ll never see. (Secretly you think it’s a big fat waste of time but your therapist says it’s the prefect way to express your inner rage and who are you to argue with science?) b) Pretend it’s not happening and carry on? (The pressure to act normally will almost kill you of course – but it would be much worse if anyone ever suspected that your life was less than perfect.) c) Create a blog and tell the whole world about your problems? (You need advice and, if he won’t listen to you, there are plenty of people out there who will. What harm can it do? Especially if you keep your identity top-secret.) Three very different women have one thing in common – a good-for-nothing Casanova called Charlie. When he betrays them, they choose three very different ways to cope. But can they ever get over him? And will the love rat ever learn his lesson?

Tags: colette caddle, kate morris, niamh greene, rebecca farnworth, Zoe Barnes

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