When the wild teenage escapades of young Corinna Schopenhauer and her brother Max are discovered, their cruel and autocratic father exacts a stern retribution. He sends Corinna to live with a strict aunt and forces Max to join the Austrian army. Soon Corinna learns that her beloved brother has deserted and is on the run. Terrified that he will suffer the ultimate penalty, she sets out on a desperate mission to confuse his pursuers. But Max's apparent desertion is not all it seems, and when Corinna meets the devilishly handsome Etienne and his friend and fellow officer Lietner, she finds her ingenuity tested and begins to realise that there is much she does not know about her noble family, her past - and herself. A stirring romance set in Austria during the years of the Habsburg Empire.

Thistledown is the story of Francois, a wilful and restless young Frenchman who, in the early years of the 16th century, leaves his family home to travel to Scotland in search of adventure. Undaunted by strange warnings along the way, he soon finds himself in grave danger. Only after being hunted down and imprisoned does he discover why his arrival in Scotland has attracted so much attention. It seems he bears an uncanny resemblance to someone very important indeed...Thistledown is an ingenious and thrilling story of adventure, romance and political intrigue.

Light-hearted and open, Dirty Vegan lets you prepare delicious vegan cuisine that anyone and everyone can enjoy and showcases the sheer variety of amazing recipes you can create, all while remaining vegan. For too long, the vegan lifestyle has been seen as limiting a laundry list of all the things vegans can't or shouldn't have. Self-styled as 'vegan junk food' healthy vegan food that doesn't skimp on taste The Dirty Vegan Cookbook is a celebration of all the amazing tastes and dishes available to those on vegan diets.

It is 1725, and a young man who has been terribly injured in an accident is taken in and cared for by a decent but impoverished farming family. After Robert Sutton has recovered sufficiently to return to his work as a Government courier, he discovers that this family has suffered a terrible injustice, and is determined to find out why and seek redress and compensation for them in return for their kindness. Along the way he manages to make an enemy of a ruthless and powerful aristocrat, and while he searches for the peace and love which has so eluded him since childhood, he finds himself locked in a fight for personal survival. An intricately-woven tale of suspense, intrigue and love set in rural Georgian England.

A young man torn between two beautiful women, three children on a remote island who slowly discover that their father has disappeared and may never come back; a new housekeeper who has a mysterious ability to manipulate the lives of everyone in the village, all to the common good. Three very different but equally intriguing novella-length stories from Catherine Gilling, author of Corinna and Thistledown.