Emma Litton couldn't get on with her life until she found out what place she'd had in her father's heart. She'd been going to school in Europe since she was fourteen, then found a job in Paris, always wondering what her famous artist father was doing in Japan or America or their cottage in Cornwall. Even after she met Robert Morrow, the handsome gallery owner, and rediscovered her stepbrother, Christo, she felt compelled to probe into the truth about her past. But Emma might learn too late that it was the truth about herself that she had to find and that letting go is the first step to keeping love.

Nick Kaharchek senses danger the minute he sees Billie Pearce. Happy in her stable home life as a divorced mother of two, she represents everything the footloose Kaharchek's always avoided. But she is also irrestibly fascinating - in a car-crash sort of way. Billie, meanwhile, finds her instinctive response to Kaharcek's attention almost as frightening as the mysterious break-ins in her neighbourhood, and the spider invasions her pest-control man seems unable to beat. As fate brings Billie and Kaharchek ever closer, they are suddenly thrown into a world of mayhem, seduction and terror - but will it lead to love everlasting?

Their love was forbidden......'She waited for his kiss....The words 'I love you' cried out silently within her, but she sensed they would never be spoken till he had said them first. And she knew also from him those words were not for her.....' Only Dieu Donne could give her peace - her beautiful home set in its glowing vineyards. And now that home faced crisis - destruction or survival.

A family is scattered across war-torn Europe. A top model finds happiness and anguish. A war profiteer loses the respect of his beloved son. The story of the Askhams, the Lightermans and the Bolingbrokes continues.

The single working mother's dilemma. Assailed on all sides by the politically correct view of single working mothers, the poverty trap looming, Rosie is presented with an unusual way out of her predicament - reconciliation with the handsome but unreliable Rory, whom she divorced years ago. Her friends are horrified, her mother is thrilled. Rosie knows it's a gamble, but becoming part of a couple again could make the world treat her as a human being once more. 'What's sex got to do with it?' she demands. 'This is the Nineties. This is business.'

Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to tuning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties, he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted. But when he splits up with his girlfriend, he realises that life has different plans for him and Matt temporarily moves back home to his parents.

Alex Wilde has got it bad....She's 27, single, bored out of her tiny mind at work and surrounded by flatmates that would make a glitterball feel square. She's got the world's worst case of Venus Envy. Her little sister Gail is pretty, waif-like and irritating. Femme fatale Keisha is flying up the ladder of success at work. And Bronwen is so hip, it's a miracle she can walk at all!

The bright dawn of the twentieth century finds itself shadowed by the strictures of the Victorian Age. Women, whatever their status in society, are still women and expected to conform to their well-defined role in life as mother and wife. For the Bannister girls, daughters of a wealthy and respected family, this is not enough. But the Great War, with all its horrors and degradation, brings with it opportunities for the girls - the stolen lives of a whole generation of young men slowly erode the man-made barriers to equality and fulfilment.

Dumped on her 30th birthday by the man she thought she would marry, Victoria Shepworth - known as Victoria 'Total Bloody Relationships Disaster' Shepworth to her friends - is feeling desperate. So desperate that she cuts her hair, temporarily considers becoming a lesbian, and even throws herself into internet dating. Armed with a new computer and an anonymous nickname, she soon starts to feel human again - especially when she starts receiving emails from a highly desirable Frenchman in Paris who claims to be a single white male seeking a single white e-mail.

Joyce Mitchell's beloved husband Mitch died five years ago. Since then she's kept her hands full and her mind and heart occupied by running The Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services like day care and job counselling to young women. Joyce's life is rich and full, but something is missing. What she doesn't have is that red dress she keeps dreaming about or the social life to suit it. And she may not have The Sewing Circus much longer due to funding cuts. Feeling defeated and pessimistic, Joyce reluctantly agrees to keep a date for dinner at the home of her best friend, Sister - a reverend like no other - and finds not only a perfect meal but a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson.