The Butterfly Box
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The House By The Sea
Santa Montefiore
The Sunday Times top ten bestseller
Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa just outside her small village, and dreams of living there someday. Then one hot afternoon, Dante, the son of the villa’s owner, invites her inside and from that moment on Floriana knows that her destiny is there, with him. But as they grow up they cross an unseen line, jeopardizing the very thing they hold most dear...
Decades later and hundreds of miles away, a beautiful old country house hotel on England’s Devon coast has fallen on hard times. Its owner, Marina, hires an artist-in-residence to stay the summer and teach the guests how to paint. The man she finds is charismatic and wise and begins to pacify the discord in her family and transform the fortunes of the hotel. However, it soon becomes clear that he is not who he seems...
From the Italian countryside to the English coast. The House by the Sea is a moving and mysterious tale of love, forgiveness and the past revealed.
PB ISBN 978-1-849S3-106-2
EBOOK ISBN 978-1-84737-932-0
Secrets of the Lighthouse
Santa Montefiore
Ellen Trawton has to get away from it all. She is due to get married to a man she doesn't love and her job is going nowhere, so she escapes to the one place she knows no one will follow her - to her aunt's house in rural Ireland. But there she uncovers a dark family secret - and a future she never knew she might have.
Meanwhile, Caitlin Macausland is mourning the future she can never have. She died tragically in what the village thinks is suspicious circumstances, and now she is stuck in a limbo, unable to move on.
And between the two of them is an old lighthouse — the scene of Caitlin's untimely death and a source of fascination for Ellen.
Can the secrets of the past be finally laid to rest? And can Ellen and Caitlin find the peace and love they long for? A compelling story of family secrets, hidden pasts and a love that will never die...
HB ISBN 978-1-47110-095-6
EBOOK ISBN 978-1-47110-098-7
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