Penny Hancock Books in Order

Voice coach Sonia invites fifteen-year-old Jez into her riverside home and decides to keep him there. As her obsession grows, memories of a teenage relationship expose secrets tied to the house and her own past.

Radio presenter Theodora employs Mona to help care for her father, but their unequal arrangement grows increasingly coercive. Told through both women’s perspectives, their escalating conflict exposes exploitation and desperation as events move toward a death.

Driving to the seaside cottage she has inherited, Ellie feels a bump on the road and later hears of a serious hit-and-run. Her fear that she caused it leads her to the injured man, whose apparent vulnerability conceals unsettling complications.

Friends since university, Jules and Holly believe their bond can withstand their families’ secrets. When Jules’s daughter accuses Holly’s son of rape, each mother’s determination to defend her child turns their shared history into a source of conflict.

Relationship therapist Renee Gulliver helps others resolve their problems while tensions spread through her own family. When her grandson disappears after a missed school pickup, she must confront the estrangements and difficult choices threatening those closest to her.