Marianna Green: 5 books

Paula Willis humours her superstitious neighbour by carrying out a love ritual with a little image of the Greek God Apollo. When he appears - incredibly golden, arrogant, muscular and overbearing, promising to grant her heart's desire - she assumes that's her ex Nick, who's walked out on her just...

Mrs Brandon, the former Marianne Dashwood, is now a widow, and not yet twenty-five. Her former admirer Willoughby is as unhappily married as ever, and the thought that she is free to marry again drives him to distraction. He has continued in his dissolute lifestyle, which Marianne abhors, while his...

When young governess Eliza Curtis surprises a burglar in her wealthy employers' house, her life changes. For Johnnie Longman - costermonger and part-time burglar, has radical views - about stealing from the rich to help the poor, a working man's rights and whether or not he should see her again. Up...

In book one of this series, Paula Willis had humoured a neighbour in performing a magical ritual to summon the sun god Apollo to help her with a love problem. When the arrogant, vain immortal appeared, the mischievous love god Eros followed him and fired a dart on him, making him fall in love with...

Paula, now estranged from Apollo and banished in disgrace from Olympus for her unfaithfulness with Achilles, lives as Achilles’ consort on his magic island out of time, where he is forever the greatest warrior of them all. It isn’t exactly comfortable on a war torn island of the Bronze...