Diney Costeloe Books in Order

Seeking a fresh start after a broken engagement, Karen becomes a resort representative in Austria. Friction with hotel owner Karl Braun complicates her new job, while a threat from England follows her into the mountains.

On holiday in southern Ireland, Rosanne must contend with her friend’s irritating brother Brendan. But their disagreements become secondary when mysterious activity in the bay draws her into danger on the waters of the Atlantic.

Zoe inherits a Cornish cottage and considers leaving London to make it her home. New friendships offer support, but sinister events and a police investigation reveal that settling there could expose her to unexpected danger.

Headmistress Janine moves to a village with her daughter, hoping to escape painful memories of London. Their new home initially promises happiness, until threats from the past endanger the life they have begun to build.

Tara arrives in Silverstrand to help run a guesthouse, then takes charge when its owner falls ill. As she cares for the woman’s grandson, a hidden family secret draws her into increasingly dangerous circumstances.

Rowena and her friend Donald built Chalford Manor into a successful hotel and country club. After his death, she must work with his younger brother Clive, whose resentment threatens both their partnership and her emotional security.

After selling her family home, Carly keeps its stables to run her riding school. The new owner shares her love of horses, but his interference in her sister’s life puts their growing connection under strain.

Marti plans to sell an inherited Lake District cottage and return to her catering business and boyfriend. Meeting an old friend who now runs a country hotel makes her reconsider the future she thought she wanted.

Reporter Rachel Elliott campaigns to save a village war memorial from developers. Investigating its mysterious ninth tree draws her into a forgotten wartime love story and secrets that reach into her own family’s past.

Petra is furious at Peregrine Arden for apparently neglecting his elderly, ill mother. When she finally confronts him, the encounter challenges her assumptions and draws her into feelings she may be unable to control.

Ginny replaces her sister as au pair on an Austrian skiing holiday, caring for two children and clashing with their guardian. Seeing Gareth’s affection for his niece and nephew complicates her opinion of the overbearing man.

When the SS arrests Ruth Friedman’s husband in 1937 Germany, she must protect their four children alone. Surrounded by persecution and betrayal, she searches for somewhere safe before the Nazi threat closes around her family.

Adelaide visits a French convent to learn about her newly discovered family, only to become trapped by war. Under German occupation, she and the nuns risk their lives helping the Resistance and sheltering Jewish children.

Residents of exclusive Dartmouth Circle are outraged when a neighbour sells his house for student accommodation. The newcomers disrupt the cul-de-sac’s carefully maintained privacy, exposing hidden secrets and changing relationships throughout the seemingly respectable community.

Pam escapes her abusive marriage and hides with an old school friend, determined that her husband will never find her. But disappearing proves harder than expected when someone reports her missing and the police begin investigating.

Folk singer Sherry hopes club owner Kendal Black will launch her recording career, but their first meeting ends in anger. Repeated encounters bring them closer while misunderstandings and outside trouble threaten any future together.

Sisters Rita and Rosie are sent to an orphanage after their mother marries a violent man. Without their family’s knowledge, officials arrange to send them to Australia, leaving the girls facing separation, hardship and an uncertain future.

After murdering his wife, Jimmy Randall disguises himself as a soldier and goes on the run. Lonely young mother Elsie offers him shelter, believing she has found love rather than a fugitive capable of terrible violence.

Lisa escapes Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and finds a new family in London. When a bombing destroys her home and leaves her without her memory, she is given another name and sent to a children’s home.

In postwar England, two young wives hope marriage will secure happier futures. But one conceals secrets that could destroy her position, while former refugee Charlotte faces the return of a man from her dangerous past.

After her mother dies, impoverished Sophie seeks work as a governess. A letter sent to Cornwall reveals an unknown family and a chance at security, but secrets surrounding her mother’s past threaten her new life.

Returning to Paris after war, the St Clair family are swept into the violence of the Commune. Young Hélène becomes separated from her parents, while her brothers find themselves fighting on opposing sides of the barricades.

In nineteenth-century France, Hélène and servant Annette share secrets from their childhood on the streets of Paris. When Hélène faces marriage to a dangerous man, their fragile security and hopes for love come under threat.

After a devastating raid on Plymouth, a policeman believes his wife and infant son are dead. Elsewhere, a grieving woman welcomes a baby her husband has brought home, unaware of the family searching for him.

Mabel Oakley dreams of becoming a secretary rather than entering domestic service. When disaster overturns her family’s circumstances in 1912 London, she must work as a maid while searching for a way to reclaim her ambition.

As war begins in 1914, Lucinda’s marriage, Mabel’s inherited printing business and Diana’s budding romance face upheaval. Three young women must navigate love, hostile rivals and separation as their lives become entangled with the conflict.