Results Publisher "Embla Books" in Literature & Fiction

One night. A shameful secret. A family she cannot escape. Kate cannot wait to escape her abusive step-father, so when the opportunity arises for her to work as a live-in maid at the beautiful Ravensworth Estate, she jumps at the chance. She loves her new life, and can't believe her luck when she...

She has left her old life behind, but can you ever really escape your past? Catherine (known as Kitty) is seventeen, restless and rebellious. She is determined to rise above her wretched surroundings and make a better life for herself. Her job at the Workhouse laundry only fuels the fire inside...

Two Sisters. Caitlin and Olivia are excited to finally be old enough to stay home alone. But, when they fall asleep, someone turns the handle of the back door and nothing is ever the same again. A Missing Daughter. When their parents return, they find Olivia's bed empty. Their eldest daughter...

A stolen child. A terrible wartime secret. Norway, 1940. Seduced by Nazi propaganda, Liv offers herself to the German High Command as war reaches rural Norway. She has something very special that they want in Berlin - but the personal cost will be terrible. Can she survive what she did as a...

In a beach paradise, an unspeakable crime is committed. The only witness lies in a coma, fighting for her life... Australia's Gold Coast: On a stunningly beautiful stretch of coastline, a young mother is brutally murdered and her daughter, Gabby, is left in a coma, with her life hanging in the...

A small mining town. A brutal double murder. A killer among them. DS Lucas Walker is out bush with his little sister Grace from Boston. They're fetching his cousin Blair, who's been mining boulder opal in Kanpara. The town is tense with rumours of a big opal find, and Blair wants out. But...

1944. As darkness descends over Europe, nineteen-year-old Hedy chooses hope in the face of the evil that grips the continent and stalks the streets of her quiet Swiss hometown. One night in the forest, with only the light of the moon to guide her, Hedy finds a wounded American airman. Second...

The Cotswolds village of Babblebrook is filled with the scent of hot chocolate and gingerbread this Christmas. Could love be in the air, too . . . ? After leaving her cheating husband, Marnie needs a fresh start. With her thirteen-year-old daughter, Lauren, she moves back to her childhood...

September, 1930. Fearless detective Miss Clara Vale is bound for Berlin, but this trip is all about la mode - not murder. Clara is set to walk the runway at Berlin Fashion Week, as a favour to her designer friend Juju, with her assistant Bella in tow. Elections loom in Germany, and among Juju's...

To save their lives, she must put hers on the line. Berlin, 1939 As war breaks out across Europe, Clara - a British midwife married to a German officer - finds herself an outsider in the place she has called home for nearly a decade. Dismissed from her hospital and powerless as a pregnant Jewish...

France, 1942. Orphaned sisters Léa and Rose live under the increasingly oppressive German occupation in Orléans. Times have been tough since their mother died - all they have left is each other - but practical Léa does her best to take care of Rose, the daydreamer. Then Léa loses her job...

'A lush, spellbinding page-turner, Wildwood is also a complex, powerful story of land and legacy. I couldn't put it down.' Flynn Berry, Edgar Award winning author of Under the Harrow and Northern Spy A chilling debut gothic mystery in the vein of Jason Rekulak and Stacy Willingham about a house...

A forgotten voyage. A forbidden name. A secret that crosses oceans. 1938. Shy nineteen-year-old, Nora O'Brien, leaves behind her life in rural Ireland and boards a ship bound for Australia - carrying little more than a valise and a secret. On board she meets glamorous and unconventional Flo, and...

Some secrets are better left buried... Rebecca finally lives the peaceful life in Nevada that she's always dreamed of with her perfect husband Tom and two adorable boys. Most importantly, Rebecca's past is safely behind her - where she left it. Until one morning an old friend shows up out of the...

A big-hearted and life-affirming novel from the author of The Second Chance Bookshop!...

She's half the world away, but her heart remains in India. Adela dreams of a life on stage and cannot wait to take her place in the glittering society of India in the dying days of the Raj. Bold and ambitious, nothing will stand in her way - until she falls in love and life takes an unexpected...

A sweet and charming romcom from bestselling author Laura Starkey...

A night at the museum, a dead body and a trail to Cairo. Sounds like a case for Miss Clara Vale! 1930: Miss Clara Vale, chemistry major turned detective, is taking a night off from sleuthing to attend the launch party of a new exhibition at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. But when the piece de...

The water's rising, the temperature's dropping. Time is running out... I wake up to darkness, my head pounding. As I reach out, my hands meet cold hard stone, and I realise in one single terrifying moment that I'm back where it all started - trapped at the bottom of the well where my best friend...

Meet Margaret Small: 75, plain spoken, Whitstable native and a Cilla Black super fan. Shortly after the death of her idol, Margaret begins receiving sums of money in the post, signed simply 'C'. She is convinced it must be Cilla, but how can it be? To solve the mystery of her benefactor Margaret...