Last of the Vikings

Kirsty is overjoyed when she is accepted for a job in Norway, working with the author Anna Grondahl. She has spent many holidays in Norway with her mother’s family and speaks the language fluently. Soon after her arrival she meets Anna’s nephew, Lars, and is both attracted and repelled by him. She can’t understand his attitude to her – charming one moment and insulting the next.

Kirsty is befriended by Henrik, a friend and neighbour of the Grondahls, and begins to enjoy a social life with him and his student friends. In the meantime, Lars seems to be totally involved with Sonje, Henrik’s cold and calculating sister.

In spite of this, the mutual attraction between Kirsty and Lars cannot be denied and, for a time, it seems that something might come of their relationship. However, Lars soon makes it clear to Kirsty that he has no respect for her and would certainly not think of her as a life companion. It is only after this final rejection that Kirsty decides to leave. Her leaving brings Lars to his senses and he pursues her to the ski slopes of Western Norway.

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Gentleman of the Road

When Tamara finds a man in a state of collapse near to her Cornish cottage, even her doctor thinks she is making a mistake to take him in. After all, the man is apparently nothing more than a tramp. However, it soon becomes obvious that Ken was not always a tramp and has another more affluent lifestyle elsewhere.

As Tamara’s relationship with Ken develops she is more and more puzzled by his attitude, even though she realises she is falling in love with him. He leaves Cornwall, promising to return, but Tamara hears nothing for months. Then she sees an article in an old magazine featuring Ken with his wife and children. The name is a little different, but she knows it is the man she took in. She is devastated.

In spite of her sense of betrayal, Tamara cannot forget Ken, so she sets off on a journey of discovery to Leicestershire. She learns details of the tragic death of Ken’s wife and children and begins to understand his reasons for taking to the road. But all is not well. There is another woman in Ken’s life, and she seems determined to keep Tamara out of it. Even when Ken buys a house in Cornwall, his relationship with Tamara blows hot and cold. It is only when she gets to the root of the tragedy of his past that she begins to understand the real man.

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Runaway Love

When a film company comes to the Cornish village where she lives with her daughter, Katy, Niki is dismayed to find the director is the husband she deserted years before. What is worse is that she never told Paul he had a daughter.

Within days, Niki’s life is turned upside down. She realises she has never stopped loving Paul, but cannot see that he has changed at all. When she finds he is still involved with the woman who wrecked their marriage, it is all too much. She is ready to take flight again, but it is not so simple this time.

Young Katy has formed an attachment to the man she does not know is her father, and Paul obviously adores his newly found daughter. What is Niki to do? She can’t deprive Paul of his daughter for a second time. And surely Katy has a right to know her father?
Niki’s employer and admirer, Guy, finally comes to the rescue. He can see that Niki still loves Paul, and he suspects Paul feels the same way about her. Guy plays a reluctant matchmaker, but it still takes time before the suspicions of the past can be finally put to rest.

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