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When Maeve McQuaid loses her boyfriend and her gardening job in one fell swoop, fate intervenes in the shape of Beth, an elderly lady carrying a gap-year-size backpack. She turns out to be the owner of the mysterious Druid's Oak Farm in North Yorkshire and offers her a job. The farm is an artist's community which has become tired and run down, much like its inhabitants. The Elizabethan building needs to be saved but Beth is slowly going bankrupt. Can Maeve make a formal garden from an overgrown shambles? Can her enthusiasm lift everyone out of their lethargy or will they rise up against her...

From city life to country life. What would you do if your old family cottage - home to generations of Norwoods, including the odd witch or two - was up for sale? Well newly single Sadie ups sticks from London to the Yorkshire Dales village where her eccentric aunt lives - and buys the property. Hoping for a new start, she aims to create a community craft business in her barns whilst restoring the cottage to live in.The authentic Gypsy caravan on her land is a bonus until she realises it is owned by her grouchy neighbour Raff. Their first meeting was anything but pleasant so this doesn't ...

A mystical Standing Stone from the dawn of time. An art teacher who has taken a year off to find peace in the Yorkshire Dales. A frumpy librarian looking for the love that has eluded her all her life. .An aristocratic professor of archaeology on a mission to save the Stone. A journey from the Winter darkness to the warmth of Summer. * Annie hopes to find the peace she craves in the village of Winterfell but gets off to a bad start with the professor, Kit Courtney, who is more good-looking than any professor has the right to be. Yet her involvement in the friendly community and the welcome ...

Sadie has pictured a perfect first Christmas at Acorn Cottage for months and now has her gorgeous, charismatic boyfriend Raff, to celebrate it with her. Yet when snow cuts their Yorkshire Dales village of Brytherstone off from the rest of the world - and demon blizzards threaten lives on the treacherous hills above them - it seems like everything is going wrong. Find out if Christmas is cancelled - or if Sadie, Raff, their two mis-matched dogs and an army of crazy friends and relatives, get to celebrate their dream Christmas after all. Enjoy this funny, warm and festive read to get you in ...

When Bridie is snowed in over Christmas at Midwinter Hall, the season of goodwill hasn't got a chance as her gorgeous boss hates Christmas. Can Bridie perform her own Christmas miracle and persuade Ned to unite with the staff and the problem neighbour, to celebrate their Yuletide festivities together? After meeting a strange, otherworldly girl in the Midwinter woods at the solstice, will Bridie's own prejudices undergo a change and make her believe in the supernatural at last? Will the Midwinter Spirit affect them all? Join the residents of Midwinter Hall, including two dogs, a horse, two ...

The Reverend Grace Danton - along with her sheepdog Nell - arrives in Flaenburg, a close-knit fishing community on the Yorkshire coast, to take over as the minister of the village church. Descended from the Vikings and still holding an annual Fire Festival, the people there are tough but friendly. The last thing she expects to find is the body of a young woman soon after her arrival. Invalided out of the police force, she can't seem to let go of her previous career as she is convinced there is more to the apparent suicide than meets the eye. Confiding her suspicions to her friend Sal and ...

Cast out into the wilds of the North Yorkshire moors, Tess has been sent on a mercy mission to her dragon of a great aunt, who has just found her brother's body at the bottom of the stairs of Rook Hall. Was it really an accident? Convinced from an early age that her aunt was a witch, this enforced stay at Wykeham Grange is pleasing to neither of them. She hopes that her aunt's bark is worse than her bite, though she has grave doubts. Worse still, it seems the Wykeham family powers are now passing on to Tess, against her will. Will aunt and niece find something in common as they become ...

Do you believe in magic? Max and his friends need to stop the evil Gisburn destroying the Wolfshead Tree and all the other trees in Robbers' Wood - but who can help them? How about a legend who lived a thousand years ago? Step up Robin Hood! He appears from inside a tree, he's annoying- a pain in the backside - but ALWAYS a hero! Cheer them all on in their adventure and see if good wins out against evil. And bring your bow and arrows...