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Harriet Cookson knows exactly what she wants from life. She has a plan, she has ambition, and she knows she has to keep busy. But when her beloved Nana Lorna passes away, Harriet has to put everything on hold as she flies out to the Hamptons to say goodbye and be with her grandfather. Whilst across the Atlantic, over a plate of canapes, Harriet's eyes connect with ex-soldier Mack's - the one that got away, the person she least expected to see - and everything begins to change.

Autumn Raine is a pop vocalist at the very top of her game. She's a style icon, the paparazzi's darling and everyone wants to be her friend. But when her safety is threatened, her whole life starts to unravel...and the police cannot know. Enter Nathan Regan, an ex-elite SAS soldier who is assigned to protect her. He's a good man doing bad things, but what drives him? Passion? Madness? Or grief? Eluding kidnap and trying to stay alive, can Autumn find the strength to be the person she longs to be? And can two people, poles apart, forge something strong enough to survive anything?

With her hands full of ticket sales and ice cream, box office assistant Samantha Smith doesn’t have time to look for romance. Except the star of the new ice-skating show at her London theatre is practically Bradley Cooper’s twin. Jimmy Lloyd needs this gig more than he’s ever needed anything before. This show is going to be his new beginning, and if he messes up this time, he’s all out of second chances. Samantha is drawn as much to the sparkling lights of the ice arena as she is to the bad boy in diamantes. But can she stop panicking long enough to give away her heart?

Recently single, Kate is struggling. Clinging on to a career and bringing up her two-year-old daughter leads to nights alone drowning her sorrows in the cheapest white wine she can find. Forced to find a man at the last minute to accompany her to a professionals' dinner, Kate somehow ends up in the middle of a relationship contest, competing for a £100,000 prize alongside someone she barely knows. With her boss, the Lady Dragon Miranda, desperate for Kate to flounder, can Kate keep her life on an even keel?

Caterer George Fraser has a mission. She's going to prove everyone wrong. Owner of catering firm Finger Food and black sheep of her family, she's determined to succeed in business where she's so far failed in her personal life. Asked to cater for gorgeous rock star Quinn Blake's after-show party, her life suddenly takes a turn for the dramatic. Magnetically drawn together, George and Quinn embark on a relationship that no one must know about.

Ava and her best friend Debs arrive in Paris just as the snow starts to fall. The Eiffel Tower glitters gold, but all Ava can think about is Leo, her no-good, cheating ex. Debs is on a mission to make Ava smile again, and as they tour the Christmas markets, and eat their body weight in pain-au-chocolat, Ava remembers there’s more to life than men... Until they cross paths with sizzling hot, oh-so-mysterious photographer Julien, with his French accent and hazelnut eyes that seem to see right inside her.