It?s hard to plan your future when the ghosts of the past won?t leave you alone ? Stella tries very hard to be good. She tries not to be sassy, to answer back, to be noticed. Because when Stella?s father is angry, it?s like lightning and thunder and hailstones. All she can do is touch wood ? or search for magpies. But as Stella begins to build a new life, her past still haunts her. It will take all her grace, courage and love to heal her wounds and...

Eighteen months ago, a young boy cowers downstairs as the police try to stop his father from brutally assaulting his mother. Now that man and three other domestic abusers have banded together to get revenge on the people they blame for taking their families away. A ring of brutal men working together against the police. And they have someone on the inside. Can Detective Maddie Ives keep their families safe?.

From the outside, anyone would think that Lucy Palmer has it all: loving children, a dashing husband and a gorgeous home. But when her marriage to Michael comes to an abrupt and unexpected end, her life is turned upside down in a flash. As the truth of her marriage threatens to surface, Lucy seizes the opportunity to swap her house in London - and the stories it hides - for a rural escape to her parents' farmhouse in the Chilterns. But Lucy gets more...