Jilly Bond

Scheming social climber Alexa may be humbly born, but she's a class-hopping cruise missile aimed at the very top of the gold-digging tree. Befriending feckless aristo Florrie means the grandest doors swing open, and soon the prince of her dreams is in sight. But has Florrie's mother, the formidable Lady Annabel, rumbled Alexa?

Married four times, Susannah Forbes had a starry career as a top model. Now, with an instinctive eye for colour and design, she finds herself in constant demand as an interior designer. Offered a commission by a recently divorced American to make over his lavish Long Island home, Susannah accepts, bringing as her assistant young divorcee Daisy Mitc

Gina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in The French House, an antiques centre nestled in the heart of the English countryside. Perky, bright and full of enthusiasn, Gina is determined to make a success of it and drag The French House and its grumpy owner into the 21st century. Bearing all the attributes of a modern-day Mr Rochester, Matth

As Kate Nichols' father battles terminal cancer, her divorced mother has fallen in love with Ben Townsend. Kate discovers that Ben has been working for MI6 and must move abroad with her mother for their own protection after his job is done. Then Kate uncovers facts which would mean her mother's certain disappearance if found out.

The last place Anna Terry, a single mother of two, expects to fall in love is in her solicitor's office while she is waiting to pick up her divorce papers, but that's where she meets Nick Diamond - a second-hand car dealer - and Cupid's arrow strikes. Originally published: London: Headline, 2005