Lesley Pearse Books in Order

Eve Hathaway flees her violent husband to protect her children, believing escape will end the fear. But Don won’t let go, and Eve’s desperate attempt to reclaim control spirals into disaster. Now she must keep her secret—and keep her family alive.

At her mother’s funeral, Alice Kent is approached by a stranger who claims to be her father. The revelation cracks open a life she thought she understood, sending Alice into a search through buried histories, prison records, and family lies.

Nina and Conrad move into picture-perfect Willow Close—and a body is discovered the very same day. As police question the neighbours, secrets spill from behind tidy doors. In a street where everyone is hiding something, anyone could be guilty.

1970s West London: Amelia White wants to be a reporter, but she’s stuck selling ads at a local paper—until she stumbles on a shocking story. Chasing the truth brings danger close, and Amelia learns how easily lies can ruin lives.

After a storm destroys her Devon village during the First World War, Betty is forced to run from everything she knew. Reinventing herself in a new city, she builds a fragile life—while the past keeps reaching for her, and love offers both comfort and risk.

In 1964, Katy can’t stop watching the mysterious house opposite, where women arrive, disappear, and never speak of why. When a fire leaves two bodies and her father under suspicion, Katy starts digging—uncovering secrets that someone will kill to keep.

Sent to live with a cold grandmother in the New Forest, Maisy and her twin brother struggle to adjust—until he disappears in the woods. Years later, the mystery still grips Maisy as she digs into old lies, family secrets, and a woman living apart from the world.

A marriage drifts into quiet loneliness, and an unexpected connection begins to feel dangerously comforting. This short story traces the small compromises that turn neglect into temptation, asking when an affair really begins—and what it costs.

In 1935, Ruby and Verity form an unlikely friendship on Hampstead Heath, drawn together by loneliness and longing. As the years and war reshape their lives, love, betrayal, and buried truths test what they owe each other—and what they can forgive.

On Coronation Day 1953, Molly Heywood’s small village is rocked when her friend is found dead and a little girl vanishes. A clue points to London, and Molly follows it into a maze of secrets, determined to find the child before it’s too late.

On the eve of war, headstrong Mari leaves New Zealand for England, desperate for a fresh start. London gives her danger instead, as the Blitz tears her world apart. To endure, Mari must find courage, purpose, and people worth fighting for.

Haunted by a past she can’t undo, a woman tries to start again and keep her life steady. When old mistakes resurface and loyalties collide, she’s pushed to confront the truth she’s been running from—and to decide what forgiveness really means.

In 1914, Belle finally has the life she dreamed of—marriage, work, and a future she chose. Then war takes her husband to the trenches, and Belle volunteers as an ambulance driver in France, where old ties and new dangers test her resolve.

London, 1910: fifteen-year-old Belle’s innocence shatters when she witnesses a murder in the house where she was raised. Abducted and sold into prostitution abroad, she’s forced to survive on courage and wit while dreaming of freedom and home.

A young woman is found half-drowned on a Sussex beach with no memory of who she is. As fragments return, she follows a trail of photos and strangers who claim to know her. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes.

With nothing but her fiddle and her nerve, Beth Bolton fights for a life beyond hardship. Love and motherhood drag her into trouble, and she sets off across America in search of safety and fortune—shadowed by gamblers, betrayal, and hard choices.

In 1995, Laura waits in a Scottish prison, facing a murder charge that could end her life as she knows it. The story reaches back to a violent childhood and a friendship that once saved her, revealing the choices that led her here.

A newborn is hidden to bury a scandal and raised by a working-class couple as their own. As Hope grows, she yearns for belonging—while the truth about her origins edges closer, threatening to break the family that saved her.

Trying to build a fresh start, a young woman is drawn into a relationship that turns controlling and frightening. As her options narrow and danger closes in, she’s forced to choose between bad choices—and discover what she’s willing to sacrifice to survive.

Sent to a strict children’s home after her family life collapses, young Adele learns quickly that trust can be dangerous. As she grows up in a world shadowed by war and shame, the secrets that shaped her childhood threaten to define her future.

In eighteenth-century England, a young woman is sentenced to transportation and shipped to the far side of the world. Facing hunger, harsh laws, and separation, she clings to love and the dream of home—until a daring escape offers a chance at freedom.

Susan walks into a doctor’s surgery and kills two people—then calmly waits to be arrested. Beth, the lawyer assigned to defend her, discovers Susan was once her childhood best friend. To understand the crime, Beth must unearth their shared past.

Adopted and drifting through life, Daisy Buchan is shaken when her mother dies and leaves a scrapbook revealing clues about Daisy’s origins. Her search for her birth parents pulls her away from everyone she loves and toward truths she may not be ready for.

After tragedy leaves Dulcie Taylor and her little sister May alone, they’re sent from an orphanage to Australia on promises of a better life. The reality is harsher than any lie, and Dulcie learns how far she’ll go to keep May safe.

Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until one brave act changes everything: she saves Tabitha, a minister’s daughter. Taken in by the family, Matilda’s journey carries her from Victorian London to a dangerous, wide-open America.

Growing up on a farm during the war, Rosie Parker endures a brutal father and violent half-brothers. A new housekeeper offers kindness—until she vanishes. Years later, the search for answers exposes dark family secrets and forces Rosie to run for her life.

Sixteen-year-old Charlie Welsh sees her mother attacked by strangers and realizes her father’s business may not be as respectable as it seems. With her father away, Charlie must protect her family and uncover who is targeting them—and why.

When Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen, a bundle of letters reveals that her past is built on lies. Fleeing to London, she chases the truth about her family and herself, navigating temptation and danger as her secrets refuse to stay buried.

In post-war London, kind-hearted Ellie and dazzling Bonny join forces after a reckless romance with American airmen. Chasing a life on the stage, they enter the glamorous, ruthless world of variety theatre—where ambition can strain even the strongest friendship.

Fifteen-year-old Charity Stratton loses her parents in a fire and is split from the siblings she adores. Forced into punishing work at a boys’ school, she’s determined to survive, protect her future, and find a way back to the family she’s lost.

Three generations collide in London’s East End as Mabel, her daughter Amy, and ambitious Tara fight for love and independence. After witnessing violence at home, Tara vows to escape poverty—whatever it costs in risk, reputation, and heartbreak.

Orphan Georgia James is fostered into what looks like a safe home, until a cruel betrayal drives her onto the streets of Soho. Gifted with a remarkable voice, she claws her way toward success—while the past threatens to catch up.