Stepping out of her comfort zone with her former best friend Beat Dawkins to convince their mothers to perform one last concert on Christmas Eve, Melody Gallard, the daughter of music royalty, discovers a decades-old scandal threatens to wreck everything--the reunion, their relationships with their mothers and their newfound love.

A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.

Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life for herself and her four year old son Hari. She can barely afford the crammed studio apartment on a busy street where shouting

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When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes that she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born to break the curse and to save them both.

"[A] beautifully crafted, exceptionally poignant love story.''-Library Journal Can she ever trust another "bad boy"? India Sommers once had the perfect family-until an ex-boyfriend broke in and shot her husband. Not only did that cost her the man she loved, a respected heart surgeon and the father of her child, but she also feels responsible. Charlie died because of the people she hung out with before she had the strength to change her life....

The perfect wife and mother finds the perfect temptation in this "perfect summer cocktail of sex, sun, and scandal" (Kirkus Reviews).
Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has taken on every responsibility, assumed every burden, granted every request. Claire wants it all—and in the eyes of her friends, she has it: a devoted husband, four beautiful children, even a successful career as an artist....

"After many failed matchmaking schemes, Lauren is committed to one goal-becoming a mother. But to satisfy the adoption agency's requirements, she must remain single, which proves to be a problem when Joshua appears. With an impossible decision looming, she will have to choose between two deep desires"--

Beth Cardall, having fallen in love with a mysterious man eighteen years earlier who helped her cope with her daughter's unidentifiable illness and problems in her marriage and changed her world and destiny, decides on Christmas Eve to divulge a secret she has been keeping for years.

Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.

After his no-nonsense assistant, Joceline Perry, comes to his rescue time and time again, FBI agent Jon Blackhawk realizes that he cannot live without her and must convince this beautiful single mother that he is worth the risk.

A Japanese boy learns of Christmas when his mother decorates a pine tree with paper cranes.