#strongfemalecharacter

When Uma's flatmate, Jayna, is brutally murdered, her world shatters.She thought she knew everything about Jayna—until the secrets start unravelling. Now, Uma is driven to uncover the truth behind her friend's mysterious death, but with every question she asks, the danger intensifies.

Wellbeing tutor Laura Belmont's world is torn apart when her wheelchair-bound mother reveals a devastating secret: her fall in the Avon Gorge wasn't an accident—it was attempted murder by her own husband, Aiden.

Shadowed by masks and etched with scars, can love bloom b

"It's your job. You kill who I tell you, when I tell you." The Belladonna is a shadow; an assassin who leaves purple-black berries on the bodies of her victims. No one knows her name, or her face. Piper is desperate to keep it that way. When an assignment goes spectacularly wrong, Piper's carefully separated lives begin to converge. Her target becomes a reluctant ally as they search for clues to the disappearances haunting the city of Silversdale; disappearances that include Piper's close friend, and a member of the empire's ruling family.

1796 Should Jiddy stay, or should she go? When Jonas left Robin Hood's Bay, he abandoned his vows to Jiddy. The sea engulfed Captain Samuel Ryethorpe, and his death exposed her once more as an outsider. Both young men believed they acted with high morals, but it was the amoral Captain Pinkney who threw Jiddy a lifeline. Now, the defiant seventeen-year-old resolves to find choices and freedom for local girls battered by poverty and confined by an insular community. Jiddy is determined. No man, no government, no place will hold them back.

Jiddy Vardy relishes her return to Robin Hood's Bay... ...where high spring tides cans sweep unsuspecting strangers into deep water. Jiddy is immediately immersed in smuggling runs, childhood friendships and the kisses of the one she loves. She is in her element, and she is invincible. But Jonas wants to earn an 'honest' living. Jiddy's adoptive mam is sick, and the captain of the Dragoons is more determined than ever to capture Bay Town's intrepid smugglers. As stakes rise higher, Jiddy has to decide whether to abandon the life she loves or lose Jonas forever.