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Wildly romantic, full of drama, heat and heart, More Than Nothing is the first book in the small-town romantic suspense Pine Springs series.

With Elenie’s family the most hated in Pine Springs, keeping a low profile has become a way of life for her.

But then new police chief, Roman Martinez, shows up at the diner where she’s a waitress, all muscle and badge and dangerous perception. And going under the radar just got that much harder.

He’s determined to take down a drug ring. The prime suspects? Elenie’s criminal stepfather and brothers. Keeping her distance would be the sensible choice, but what if she could help Roman put her family behind bars – and finally prove that she’s nothing like them?

Turning informant will be a dangerous game for them both. But it might be Elenie’s only chance to get the life – and the man – she’s always dreamed of…

Sometimes, you have to risk it all when the potential reward means everything.

Francesca Catlow (www.francescacatlow.co.uk) chats with Karen Swan (https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/310156/karen-swan) about her novel Christmas by Candlelight for Gaia's Library Book Boxes and Book Club. Join us at www.gaiaslibrary.co.uk if you haven't already.

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Snowed in for the holidays, old truths rise to the surface. Christmas by Candlelight is a cosy Christmas story from Karen Swan, bestselling author of The Stolen Hours.

It’s three days before Christmas and starting to snow when high-flier Libby and her new boyfriend reluctantly attend her university reunion.

Hosted by Archie Templeton – the heartbreaker of their group – at his grand family estate in Yorkshire, the night is a great success until they go to leave: the road is now blocked with snow.

At first, being snowed in together is fun. But as hours pass everyone grows restless.

Then the power goes out . . .

Hunkered down together by candlelight, they reminisce about old times – and tensions soon start to rise. Secrets from the past begin to unravel and Libby is confronted with a truth she has long tried to deny.

Francesca Catlow (www.francescacatlow.co.uk) chats with Hannah Lynn (www.hannahlynnbooks.com) about her novel The Women of Artemis for Gaia's Library Book Boxes and Book Club. Join us at www.gaiaslibrary.co.uk if you haven't already.

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Mothers. Daughters. Warriors. Women.

This is the never-before-told story of history's most ferocious heroines: this is the rise of the Amazons.

When she first married at fourteen, Otrera imagined a relationship full of love. A partnership. Years later, living in destitution with her abusive husband, she knows that no such thing exists with a man. It is simply a woman's lot in life to accept the treatment of her husband.

Until it's not.

Rallying the women around her, Otrera fights back, taking no prisoners. Because it's clear to her: when men are in power, freedom isn't granted. It's bought with blood. It's a price she is more than willing to pay, if it means building a new life with other women far from the reaches of their abusers.

But a community of women - an army of women - is bound to make enemies of gods and men alike.

This is the story of Otrera and the first Amazons.

Francesca Catlow (www.francescacatlow.co.uk) chats with her editor, Victoria Pepe from Lake Union, about her novel Under a Greek Sky for Gaia's Library Book Boxes and Book Club. Join us at www.gaiaslibrary.co.uk if you haven't already.

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When her happily-ever-after is shattered by a fiancé who disappears along with her life savings, Lorena desperately needs a new start. Then her seemingly perfect parents separate, and her mother decides to return to Corfu, the island of her birth, to renovate a family beach house. Lorena goes too, keen for a chance to shut the world out for a while.

The sun-soaked island with its stunning beaches and glittering sea is just the distraction Lorena needs. Not least handsome, mysterious Christos. But as long-held family secrets start to emerge, clouds gather over their Greek island paradise.

Why has Lorena’s mother always refused to return to Corfu until now? What secrets of his own is Christos keeping? When her father reappears on the scene, all hope of peace seems lost. Is Lorena about to watch another happily-ever-after implode, or can she learn from the past and open herself up to a new future?

Let Francesca Catlow sweep you away to enchanting Corfu—the perfect place to rediscover romance and embrace new beginnings.

Francesca Catlow (www.francescacatlow.co.uk) chats with Imogen Clark (www.imogenclark.com) about her novel, In Another Life, for Gaia's Library Book Boxes and Book Club. Join us at www.gaiaslibrary.co.uk if you haven't already.

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How big a lie would you tell to protect the ones you love?

From the million copy bestselling author of In a Single Moment comes a heart-twisting story of family, identity and the cost of truth.

Bronte Ashton thought she knew everything about her mother Loretta — until a stranger appears at her funeral claiming to be Loretta's long-lost sister. But Loretta was an only child.

Grief turns to confusion, then a desire to find out the truth. Because while her siblings dismiss the woman as an impostor, Bronte can't ignore the nagging feeling that maybe they didn't know their mother at all.

As Bronte journeys from Loretta's beloved home in Yorkshire to the heat-soaked hillsides of Sicily, she uncovers more questions than answers. Why did Loretta leave her old life behind? And what secret was worth erasing her entire past to protect? But as Bronte edges closer to the truth, she realizes that some family secrets, once revealed, have the power to shatter not just the past, but everything she holds dear in the present.