A TIMELESS CLASSIC! Emma Woodhouse believes herself to be an excellent matchmaker, though she herself does not plan on marrying. But as she meddles in the relationships of others, she causes confusion and misunderstandings throughout the village, and she just may be overlooking a true love of her own.

Matt comes across photos of him as a child yet they seem unfamiliar; is it really him? He can't remember the clothes or the toys, and his sister Imogen is nowhere in the pictures. Since her childhood Imogen has loved the Summer House, a charming folly in the grounds of an ancient house on Exmoor and now she and her veterinary husband have the chance of buying. But her marriage is threatened when her husband refuses to live so far from his practice....

Three little girls set off to school one sunny May morning. Within an hour, one of them is dead. Fifteen years later, Kitty lives in an institution. She can't speak, and has no memory of the accident that put her there, or her life before it. Nearby, Alison, a local artisan, struggles to make ends meet and to forget her past. When a job opens up in a prison as an art teacher, she takes it. Soon, though, she starts to receive alarming notes--followed...

Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's minister of information.

Liz and Jonathan Chambers are stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts, and a miserable adolescent daughter. Realtor Marcus Witherstone comes into their lives with the perfect tenants to rent their old house: a glamorous PR girl, Ginny, and her almost famous husband, Piers. But soon Liz is lost in dreams of Marcus, Jonathan is left to run their business, and neither of them has time to notice that their teenage daughter is developing an unhealthy...

Through the window of her first-class coach, Mrs. McGillicuddy sees a woman being strangled in a passing train, No one believes her except her good friend Miss Marple. Now the inimitable sleuth must find a body and match wits with a killer

Despite her dreams of falling in love with and marrying a duke, a passionate young lady finds herself falling for the enigmatic footman next door, in a romance set against the backdrop of Regency England.

"In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable...but not too amiable. Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. She has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic...

A markswoman in a London circus in Regency-era England, French expat Cecile Tremblay finds a home, family, and future with her fellow performers, but when her ex-lover returns, begging for her help, she will, by teaching him about honest work--and the right way to treat a woman.

Inheriting a London house from an unknown relative, Julia begins work on the house at the side of an alluring antiques dealer before discovering an old painting that reveals the house's shrouded history and the story of a mid-nineteenth-century woman trapped in a loveless marriage.