Item category 1: Romance

Amelia and her sister Ruth have mixed feelings when their impetuous mother decided the should stay with her sister, Sarah, in the harbour town of Whitby, for Amelia cannot envisage them finding suitable husbands there. However, once she has set eyes upon the gallant, but mysterious, Sam Knight, A...

Despite having her own problems, Carys gets drawn into helping an American visitor after he visits the library where she works, searching for his grandmother's family. Together, they unearth secrets that lead them to a monastery on a local island, where they discover his family's colourful histor...

Connie and Jack didn't really know each other until they were asked by married friends, Kay and Mike, to be godparents to their baby daughter. Kay and Mike tried to set them up on a couple of dates, but Connie was still getting over a bad break-up. She and Jack decided they were not meant to be a...

It has been years since schoolteacher Angela Banks last saw Russ Stretton, but she remembers him only too well. She'd had a massive crush on him as a teenager, and now he's back in her life. But he's carrying considerable emotional baggage, including a five-year-old son, Mikey - not to mention a ...

Lowrie North has been running from the past. Now, with her great-aunt Angelina's unexpected legacy, she must face those she left behind to recreate elegant Ashwood Lodge as a successful hotel. Joining her in that challenge is her cousin Jess Harding, Jess's stepbrother Tom, and Angelina's best f...

Born in the same year that the Titanic sank, 17-year-old Cassandra Grant has the world at her feet. But tragedy strikes her family and Cassie has to grow up fast. She falls in love with Dr Michael Ryan - but then discovers he is about to be engaged to be married. Cassie leaves town to begin train...

When Jemma's new boss Matt suggests bringing a TV crew into the wildlife park, she reluctantly agrees. As Head of Mammals, she's occupied with the animals - and most urgently, the attempt to get their two giant pandas to breed. But the demanding TV director is more interested in another relations...

No one in Seven Polars, Delaware, expects Anna Yoder to marry. But then Samuel Mast, the handsome widowed father she has secretly loved for years, asks if he can court her. But Anna is convinced he seeks a wife only as a mother for his 5 children.

Anna Silverton and Janek Dabrowski escape war-torn Europe together, forging a friendship that carries them through difficult times. Even when they are apart, Anna dreams of Janek coming for her so that they can be a family. Then, when she is accused of harming her half-brother, Teddy, she runs aw...