Standoff by Sandra Brown
          TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation when she hears the news on the radio: The teenage daughter of Fort Worth tycoon Russell Dendy has been a kidnapped. Immediately, she abandons her holiday plans to chase down what could be the scoop of a lifetime. 
          But in a town called Rojo Flats an innocuous stop at a convenience store thrusts her directly into the dramatic story — and a dangerous drama. For inside the shop two desperate young lovers are holding a half dozen frightened hostages…. and a powder keg of a standoff is about to test Tiel’s courage, journalistic objectivity, and everything she has ever believed.

Thinking of You by Jill Mansell
          When Ginny Holland’s daughter Jem heads off to university, Ginny can’t believe how much she misses her. Ginny knows it’s the perfect time to kich-start a whole new life. But fresh beginnings can be tricky, especially when the first gorgeous man you’ve clapped eyes on in years accuses you of shoplifting. For heaven’s sake, it’s not as if she meant to steal the peacock… 
          Meanwhile, is Jem missing her mother? Not a chance! Being away from home is a huge adventure and Jem’s making the most of her newfound freedom. Thank goodness her mother isn’t the clingy, protective type. Anyway, Ginny’s nusy enough right now with a new job and a fledging relationship with the charismatic Perry Kennedy. 
          But is Ginny as in control of the situation as Jem thinks? Is it too late for her to set right the first impression she made on Finn Penhaligon, her sexy but scary boss? And is either Finn or Perry quite what he seems?

Salvation Creek by Susan Duncan
          Susan Duncan’s bestselling memoir about starting again and risking everything to find the only thing you need. At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia’s top selling women’s magazines, a happy marriage, a jetsetting lifestyle covering stories from New York to Greenland, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty, the world was her oyster. 
          But when her beloved husband and brother die within three days of each other, her glittering life shatters. In shock, she zips on her work face and soldiers on – until one morning eighteen months later when she simply can’t get out of bed. 
          Heartbreaking, funny and searingly honest, Salvation Creek is the story of a woman who found the courage not only to walk away from a successful career and begin again, but to beat the odds in her own battle for survival and find a new life – and love – in a tiny waterside idyll cut off from the outside world. 
          From the terrifying first step of quitting the job that had always anchored her to abandoning herself to a passionate affair that she knows will break her heart, Duncan never flinches from the truth or loses her wicked sense of humour. Even when she finds a paradise on earth only to discover that it may be too late. It’s been said that the greatest risk in life is not to take a risk.