Bella is defective. You need to take her back.

Nine-year-old Bella D’accourt has always known she was different; she was born into a controversial ‘designer baby’ eugenic programme, difference is in her DNA. Bella has been designed to be exceptionally beautiful, but when she uses her sadistic, manipulative charm to seriously injure another child, her mother brings her back to her creators and demands they 'fix her'.

Thus begins Bella’s new life among scientists and other eugenic ‘Subjects’ at the mysterious Aspira Research Centre in Cumbria. But an enemy lurks in the shining laboratories set among idyllic mountains; an obsessive, murderous enemy who will, years later, drive Bella from all she has worked for and into a desperate, night-time flee across the country with her daughter, whom she will protect at all costs.

But Ariana, 12, isn’t so sure she wants to be protected by Bella anymore.

‘A fascinating read, which explores the subject of genetic engineering, whilst telling a gripping story at the same time. I also enjoyed unearthing the complicated mother/daughter relationship between both Bella and Ariana and also Bella and Ana'

BOOK AVAILABLE TO READ IN AUGUST

Book one in the White Rose Witches series
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Single mum and TV presenter Evie grew up on a farm loving fairy tales but her biggest fear is that she isn't the princess, she's the villain in her own story. Evie Hepburn loves fairy tales.

She lived briefly as the princess in her own romance with her famous husband once upon a time. Now she’s a media darling that shines brightly but briefly three times a week on her lunchtime television show before she retreats to the shadows and secrets of her family farm to be a single mum.

Subdued by years of cowering away, layer after layer of her personal life becomes exposed when she starts dating handsome builder Robbie Anderson. This time, shying away in silence will not protect those she loves.

Evie will lose everything if she cannot stand up and fight to be the villainous witch that she really is, not the princess she wishes she was.
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Debut novel from profoundly deaf author Georgie St Claire this is the first volume of the White Rose Witches series

BOOK AVAILABLE TO READ IN SEPTEMBER

The Blue Hour – two love affairs and two summers, 75 years apart

TRIGGER WARNING - References to suicide

Damaged by a toxic relationship, Ava Westmorland flees the ruins of her life in London for a carer’s job in a Cornish village. She hopes a combination of countryside and coast will heal her shattered heart. But she has yet to face tyrannical Tilly Barwise; the 89-year-old she will be looking after.

Sharp, cantankerous and with an acid tongue, Tilly is the polar opposite of a sweet old lady. She has lived a thrillingly full life of romance and intrigue – and is determined shy Ava will follow in her doddering footsteps.

Through Tilly’s outrageous antics and bittersweet reminiscences, she shows Ava what it is to embrace life. As the pair form an unlikely bond, Tilly reveals the details of a wartime love affair with an American that ended in tragedy – but not quite in the way Tilly always believed.
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…the literary equivalent of a strong gin and tonic on a warm summer’s evening: refreshing, invigorating and inspiring…a stunningly good debut. Beautifully written, this honest, emotional and moving novel had me hooked from the opening pages. I could not stop reading until I had finished, and when I had finished, I missed the characters. - Novelist Louise Douglas

BOOK AVAILABLE TO READ IN OCTBER