Friendly Air Publishing: 50 books

Elaine Tracy wins a luxury cruise to Las Palmas for her fiancé and herself. They quarrel, and Elaine breaks off the engagement but decides to go on the cruise alone. Attractive and unattached, once on board she inevitably  draws a certain amount of masculine attention and for her the holiday...

The Mostyn world was small and self-contained. The Mostyns themselves were placid, undemanding, without curiosity or malice, totally unconcerned with world trends. Only two members of the family had ever broken free of the Mostyn stream. The first was Madeleine, who, at the age of eighteen, had performed...

When, like Ruth and Roger Mallard, you inherit a large house but no money to keep it up, one thing you can do is turn it into a guest-house. And having made up their minds, the Mallards decided that River Lodge was to be a guest-house of the very best kind. The first week’s guests were specially...

        Jessica de Vrais was twenty-two, the only child of an elderly and irritable widower. Though they thought alike on almost all matters, they agreed on none; least of all did they see eye to eye on the subject of men. Jessica, pretty and popular,...

When Philippa Lyle, engaged, returns home from her lengthy stay in Canada, she finds that her small town has changed. The ruins of a Roman villa and bath have been discovered and the town is over-run with archaeologists, tourists, and curiosity seekers. Some of the residents are excited about the...

On holiday in Portugal, to take their daughter’s mind off a troubled love affair, the Channing family are befriended by the hospitable Baronesa Narvao—but soon find her hospitality something of an embarrassment.

“You’ve had almost as much happiness in your life as countless people can reckon on in a long lifetime,” said her father, and being a happy person by nature—though not at that particular moment—his daughter admitted with only the faintest snuffles that it was true. Growing up in...

In the village of Outercrane a wedding reception is taking place after the marriage of George and Stella Deepley’s youngest daughter. Stella is making plans for the holidays to enjoy the sights and relax in the sun in the Mediterraneans. Events take a disturbing turn when a local investigation uncovers...