In the quiet of the Wiltshire countryside, Maggie Hatherall, full of life despite her advancing years, is worried about what she is going to do with her two-hundred-year-old home. Newcomer Lucia Grey has escaped a bad marriage but her ex is reluctant to let her go. For architect Corin Drayton, an unexpected inheritance is the start of a complicated family wrangle but it does mean he stumbles upon Larch Tree Lane, hidden among the rolling hills.From the cottages and farms to the local shop, pub and old manor house, residents'' lives are set to intertwine, relationships bloom and both romance and heartache lie ahead. A new series of contemporary romances Anna Jacobs has never been more popular. She retains her position as the fifth most borrowed adult author in recent PLR figures. Prolific and extremely popular author of historical and contemporary sagas with sales of over four million copies