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Separated in every way but distance, Sebastian resides in a guest cottage across the lawn from Ella's ramshackle farmhouse. When Ella married the handsome, celebrated artist Sebastian Montclair at just 19, she was madly in love. Now, those blissful years of marriage have turned into the definition of an unconventional set-up. With an ex-husband living under her nose and a home crowded by hostile teenaged children, gender-confused chickens—not to mention her hypercritical mother whose own marriage is coming undone—Ella finds comfort in the company of the charming gardener, Ludo.

When Flora, James, and their two daughters are offered a holiday in a chateau in the South of France, they jump at the chance. Flora is excited to exchange the confines of London and the drudgery of everyday life for a blissful family vacation, but she didn't anticipate a mysterious guest and a whole heap of family baggage to come along, as well. The trip of a lifetime takes some very unexpected turns when James develops a schoolboy crush on a famous singer and Flora is distracted by ghosts from her past. Will the ties of family be strong enough to withstand this “dream” vacation?

Polly Penhalligan is outraged at the suggestion that since getting married to Nick and settling into their beautiful manor farmhouse in Cornwall, she has let herself go. But watching a lot of telly and gorging on biscuits, not getting dressed until lunchtime, and waiting for pregnancy to strike are not the signs of someone living an active and fulfilled life. So Polly does something rash.

Offered an enormous sum by an anonymous benefactor for the acquisition of an ancient ceremonial relic, a sum that would keep the antiquities shop in Cairo her father left her afloat while she continued her own archaeological pursuits, Lady Isabella Valentine was distracted rather than tempted, then suspicious, when the dashing young Bedouin slipped in just before closing and promised her a deal she couldn’t refuse - for the very same relic.