Acorn imprint: 280 books

When Summer Johnson’s plans go awry, she must journey back to her hometown of Silver Brook, Wyoming. Gathering herself together, she determines to make the best of things. Now, if only she won’t run into him… So begins this latest Christmas tale centered on the strong characters for which...

Christmas has come quickly this year, with too much to do in too few days, and now the power has gone off in the midst of a snowstorm. Still, the family gathers before the fireplace to hear for the first time the Christmas story of beautiful, young Spira and the silver-white birds who attempt to save...

Nothing happens at The Shores. Ceilidhs, yes. Killings, no. Until one night, murder comes to the isolated Prince Edward Island village. Amateur sleuth Hy McAllister trips over a body on the beach. It's cottager Lance Lord, dressed like Jimi Hendrix, his head split open by an axe. As Hurricane Angus...

     “And if we get caught? What then? Exactly how many families will that feed?”        So opens internationally beloved, From Womens’ Pens author Angel Nichols’ latest Christmas tale.       ...

Robert Hillier is shocked when film actress, Tamara Collins, visits his office and tells him that her husband, film director Lewis Lawson, has beaten up Robert’s twenty-year-old son, James. Ever since the suicide of his wife, Jill, Robert has been particularly protective towards James, who is offhand...

Mailliw’s second adventure begins on Halloween. The joy of his friend Princess Frija’s surprise visit is soon overshadowed by her terrible news. The black diamond has been stolen and her country is about to go to war with the Guardian of the Winter Mountains – the very person who had helped Mailliw...

The former Crimewatch presenter Sue Cook takes an understandably journalistic approach to her fiction writing, confronting difficult issues head on in pursuit of a good story... Cook is well-attuned to complex family relationships and has artfully constructed a thought-provoking and compelling drama...

     Two hundred children enjoying a school outing. Two hundred eager faces filled with joy. Two hundred little ones, accompanied by their teachers, making their way along a well-worn trail through a forest towards a bonfire waiting ahead.       Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?     ...

Herrings are falling from the sky over The Shores – an unusual phenomenon anywhere, but especially so in this case. A newcomer, Anton Paradis, has set up a restaurant that specializes in dangerous dining, cooking up food that can kill to tantalize the palates of wealthy clients. It’s a recipe...

“Lady, you can’t do that in here!” Alberto Perez shouts into his cab’s rearview mirror, but there really isn’t much he can do.  Two hours later, a baby girl enters the world, and so, the story begins. Eighteen years later, Rose Smith finds herself on the doorstep of a New York...

 Rika is a happy, energetic girl in control of her life and her small flock of sheep and helping her father run their farm and household since her mother died six years earlier. The one thing that would make life even more perfect would be a Border collie pup she could train to herd the...

“An authentic, well-written and deeply-felt portrait of the tragedy that is South Sudan.” – John Le Carré  “I thought of everyone I loved as I ran. I thought of Michael… and of Billy. Of Bol and Manute. And then names began falling like tears around me…”  Maria Marshall is a trainee...

It's lobster season at The Shores, a fishing village isolated from The Island in a storm surge. Parker, a collector of antiquities, has moved there with his partner Guillaume, a chef just out of rehab. "Hy" McAllister, a website writer looking for lobster recipes for a client's newsletter,...

The people of Stourbridge have long since grown accustomed to the ways of Christina Compson, the beautiful woman who has been so successful in her running of Henzels glassworks. But the mistakes of her past life come to overshadow the lives of Christina's family.  The two eldest children, Emily and...