Blogs in January 2025

At The Grand Glacier Hotel 15th January 2025

Following a disastrous family holiday, Libby and Curtis make a promise: If they ever visit the West Coast of the South Island again, it will be to stay at the majestic Grand Glacier Hotel. Twenty years later, Libby is...

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The Longest Exile 14th January 2025

Rome, 8 CE. Julia, eldest granddaughter of Augustus, is four months pregnant, and it should be cause for celebration. The only problem is that her husband was executed a year ago for treason. The math is simple, and damning....

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Forgiveness 14th January 2025

It is 1863. ELIZABETH ‘BESSIE’ GOODWIN, a young woman of conscience and spirit, lives with her grandfather, CAPTAIN FRANCIS GOODWIN, at Wigwell Grange in Derbyshire. In August Bessie is stabbed to death by GEORGE TOWNLEY, to whom she had...

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Central Places 12th January 2025

Audrey Zhou left Hickory Grove, the tiny central Illinois town where she grew up, as soon as high school ended, and she never looked back. She moved to New York City and became the person she always wanted to...

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Sunstruck 12th January 2025

It’s summer and a young man walks through the gates of a luxurious mansion in the South of France. At the dinner table, the Blake siblings await him: Lily, his carefree friend from university; Dot, the rebellious younger sister;...

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