The Second Chance Café (A Hope Springs Novel) by Alison Kent from Montlake Romance (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Growing up, Kaylie Flynn was shuffled from foster home to foster home before being welcomed into Winton and May Wise’s family. It was May who taught Kaylie the comfort of home, and the healing power of baking the perfect brownie. Years later, May leaves Kaylie the money she needs to open her own café in the charming Victorian house they once shared. Now back in Hope Springs, Kaylie’s determined to finally make all her dreams a reality—and unearth answers to lingering questions about her past.
Soon, however, Kaylie’s carefully laid plans take an unexpected turn. The house needs far more work than she realized, and Tennessee Keller, the carpenter Kaylie hires, is proving to be a very handsome and very unneeded distraction from her quest to uncover the truth about her parents. When a crisis threatens to destroy everything she’s worked so hard to build, Kaylie must decide where her heart lies: with the ghosts of her past or the love and promise of her future.
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The Upstart by Catherine Cookson from Peach Publishing (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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The Upstart is a historical novel from Catherine Cookson set amidst the turbulent social currents of rural England at the turn of the century.
Risen to power and influence, Samuel Fairbrother, a newly monied manufacturer and retailer of boots, shoes, and clogs, decided that his new station in life deserved a more imposing residence. When a thirty-four-room mansion on the outskirts of Fellburn became available, he established himself as the owner of the property he saw as the emblem of his wealth and a suitable reward for his new, exalted status in the business community. Along with the house, Fairbrother inherited the services of a staff of servants headed by Maitland, the butler, who made it plain his new boss was not the gentleman his predecessor had been but was no more than an upstart.
So began a clash of wills between master and man, in which Samuel Fairbrother soon realised he is at a distinct disadvantage. Maitland, urbane and apparently well educated, was ingenious at maintaining a position of indispensability. Fairbrother was all too aware that he dare not do without Maitland’s services and was forced to conclude that he would never win this conflict. And so an uneasy truce was declared between them.
As the years went by and the century turned, Fairbrother’s children left the big house and made lives of their own – all except his eldest daughter, Janet, who by means of a legacy was able to shape the destiny of her father’s scattered family and effect the reconciliation that he thought was impossible.
The Upstart is a brilliant novel that captures vividly the conflicts of class in the society of the late nineteenth century.
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The Boy from Reactor 4 (The Nadia Tesla Series Book 1) by Orest Stelmach[ from Thomas & Mercer (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Nadia’s memories of her father are not happy ones. An angry, secretive man, he died when she was thirteen, leaving his past shrouded in mystery. When a stranger claims to have known her father during his early years in Eastern Europe, she agrees to meet—only to watch the man shot dead on a city sidewalk. With his last breath, he whispers a cryptic clue, one that will propel Nadia on a high-stakes treasure hunt from New York to her ancestral homeland of Ukraine. There she meets an unlikely ally: Adam, a teenage hockey prodigy who honed his skills on the abandoned cooling ponds of Chernobyl. Physically and emotionally scarred by radiation syndrome, Adam possesses a secret that could change the world—if she can keep him alive long enough to do it.
A twisting tale of greed, secrets, and lies, The Boy from Reactor 4 will keep readers guessing until the final heart-stopping page.
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