How hard can it be? Serving a few croissants, cleaning a few bedrooms, cooking some easy meals, and then spending the rest of your time snowboarding and getting drunk. Sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it? Well Andy Smith thought the...

Cally Johnson is fleeing an unrequited love affair by swapping her dead-end job and a dreary London winter for a dead-end job and a snowy winter in the French Alps. Hopelessly scatterbrained and disorganised can she find the love...

The ski season. A glamorous world of snowy pistes, gorgeous ski instructors and glittering après-ski nightlife. What’s not to love? Quite a lot, thinks Millie Braythorpe. Four months of endless bed-making and cooking for guests have taken their toll,...

They thought it was perfect. They were wrong… A glamorous chateau Aura and Nick don’t talk about what happened in England. They’ve bought a chateau in France to make a fresh start, and their kids need them to stay...

Val d’Isere is a beautiful, beguiling and deadly place. Snow storms, avalanches and accidents are the least of the dangers that the skiers and boarders who live there have to face. James, a new ski guide in the resort,...

We got so busy living life that we forgot to live our dreams.” Danni Lewis has been playing it safe for twenty-six years, but her sheltered existence is making her feel old ahead of time. When a sudden death...

The story; Lucy and Claire were once best friends but after a row, they haven’t spoken in ten years. Imagine their shock when they are thrown together, not only in the same ski resort in the French Alps but...

After a time of heartache and loss, Simone Winthrop discovers a tantalizing letter from her French great-grandmother, which seems to suggest that she is heir to a family treasure. Ever practical, Simone assumes the claim is baseless, but her...

Several years ago, my husband, three young children and I unzipped and discarded our comfortable Australian lifestyle and slipped on life in the country of haute couture. On arrival, there was no celebrity designer waiting for us, ready to...

A surprise Christmas holiday in the French Alps should be a dream come true, but not for sixteen-year-old Nirvana. She has an important project to complete at home, and tensions are high with her parents. In desperation, Niv skips...