Katie has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, and she feels lonely. When she accidentally falls through the ice while skating, she meets Jimmy, handsome, far older than she, and married. But she is entranced. As their relationship unfolds, so does Katie's awareness of the pain and intensity first love can bring.

Unmarried at 51, Myra Lipinsky has endured the isolation of her middle life by immersing herself in her home nursing career. Now Chip Reardon is assigned to be her new patient. He is an old school friend who, with an incurable illness, has returned home to New England to spend his remaining days.

Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. This novel is written by the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels .

Have you ever opened a letter that completely changed your life?

Rose Lloyd was the last to suspect her husband of an affair, especially one with her friend Minty. Left alone, Rose starts thinking about the man she married, about how well she knew him, and about the girl she had been before she met him. Can she recapture a life where she put herself first?

From the publishers of Rosamunde Pilcher and Santa Montefiore comes a sparkling new voice in commerical women's fiction.