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Cornelia Linchfield Chase is America's most perfect First Lady. She should be - from birth it's the role she was groomed for. But a ...

A sleepless toddler escapes from his family home and thus survives the murder of his entire family. He is tracked to a nearby cemetery by th...

Grace feels stifled by the expectations of her religious father - he's so sure about who she is and what she should do that Grace doesn...

Bored out of his mind one day, Danny was searching for something interesting to do. When his mother rang to tell him that his gread-uncle Ga...

It is the beginning of 1811, and in London politicians and advisers are planning how to proceed with succeeding King George, who slips ever ...

Lakshmi’s Nepalese family is struggling to survive, thanks in no small part to her step-father – unable to work because of an arm that was f...

As S.R. Fielding, Sara Fielding achieved no little recognition on the publication of her first novel, Mathilda , the gritty and meticulously...

Georgie York’s life was perfect – thanks to her father’s close management of her life and her career she’d avoided the usual pitfalls that b...

From the moment she sees the lithe servant at her uncle’s wedding, Kezi is attracted to him. But she has only a month to live, thanks to a v...

A young lady left near penniless after the murder of her hated stepfather must find a way to support herself and her young sister. The usual...

Sammie was happy with her life in Thornbury - her mum was cooler than most of the other mothers, she had a best friend and could slide along...

In this sequel to A Crack in the Line , Naia and Alaric are still living in one another's worlds - Alaric is bereft, and Naia is still t...

Mirror-image twins Kayleigh and Raeanne used to be inseparable, but that was before the accident, eight years earlier. Their district-cour...

Victoria Hart loves being part of a foursome of single girls in Chicago - she's been friends with Gwynn, Kimmie and Julia since freshman...

Marty Andrews has made it to lavender, the first rung on the Bobbie-Sue cosmetics hierarchy, and has her gaze firmly set on sky blue. Her tw...

Fostered by the noble Lord Ector, Arthur, a young boy of unknown parentage, lives in the no man’s land between servant and master until one ...

Margaret never wanted to go camping in the first place - she'd rather spend time with her best friend Leon or eating junk food, but her ...

John Kendall has given himself two years to make it as a writer. Though he’s published several survival guides as part of his job with a mor...

Luton-based PI Joe Sixsmith is melting in the heat of his office, in the midst of an unseasonably warm British summer, when a Young Fair God...

Young bat Silverwing has always been more inquisitive and curious than his fellows. Frustrated by the rules that govern bat behaviour, he is...

The collection of not-quite-Utopian-for-everyone FSF shorts covers a variety of potential perfect worlds and asks what happens if the fit is...

Timothy Frisby is heading off for his third year of school - because of the distance from home, he won't see him mother or siblings for ...

Addie Downs had never fitted in, and with the exception of her older brother, nor had her family - all the other father's dressed in a s...

As summer approaches it's almost time for widowed Mrs Frisby and her four children to move from their winter home. But Timothy, the you...

After the events of New Moon Bella and Edward are back in Forks, under the watchful eye of her distrustful father. The sheriff is adamant t...

Marc Kilgour was abandoned at a railway station as an infant - the only life he's known is at the orphanage, where he and the other chil...

In what should have been his final year at Hogwart's, Harry is instead preparing for the fight of his life - the final showdown with Vol...

A society very similar to Victorian England has made a pact with a race of Demons. The outcasts of demon society are free to live amongst hu...

Ruby had been managing on her own just fine, thank you very much, ever since her mother took off with her latest boyfriend. After all, she...

Zack Walker moved his family from the city, where they were perfectly happy but at risk from dangers on every corner, to the safe 'burbs...