Elizabeth Cadell: 50 books

David Eliot’s future seemed secure with his engagement to Marly Tranter, the daughter of the incredibly rich and powerful Sir Bertram Tranter.  As an architect, David seemed to fit right in with the family, even if it included a golden collar. But the mission on which Sir Bertram sent...

First time on eBook!! It looked so peaceful from the outside, a perfect setting for a charming family. But a time was to come when a stranger stirred up the concealed undercurrents, forcing them to the surface.  The wide repercussions had a sudden and unexpected effect on the lives of the inhabitants of Folly’s Cottage.

The Green Empress coaches specialised in taking clients of wealth or importance across Europe in luxury. When Angus Graham became “liaison officer” for one of these coaches he did so lightheartedly, but quickly changed his mind when everything went wrong.  Fortunately, the dangers and difficulties...

Rae knew a good deal about Richard Ashton. Sharing his sister Judy’s flat, she had lived for a year with his photograph: a dark, handsome, somewhat commanding young man. She had listened to long extracts from his letters, and built up a picturesque if inaccurate picture of his life in Kenya. She...

Just when Alison Sinclair feels that her unhappy past has no longer any power to hurt her, a chance encounter on a London railway station brings it all back, and events move inexorably towards their tragic conclusion.

In a sleepy village of Downpass, 23 year old Gianna decides to throw a Christmas party. Beatrice Risdon, James’s forceful sister and steely doyenne of Downpass life, stands aghast as friends from London and Paris descend en masse for the occasion. Among them are: Pierre, a sensitive virtuoso violinist...

Edmund Forth, a wealthy architect, was already engaged to the beautiful and efficient Angela, but in Portugal he meets a penniless young girl who runs a boarding house in London. Fran Nash is devoted to her young brother and sister and her eccentric and talented boarders and she, it is, who teaches him that efficiency is not enough, that people are all important.

Kate Verney left her home in London at Christmas time to travel to Buenos Aires to meet her first grandchild! On the voyage she makes friends with Lindy and Rex Barron, two young adults who lost their mother and are on their way to live with their father in Lisbon. Murder and mystery is in the air...

There was snow in Devonshire at the end of May, and floods on the first day of June—signs that would have sent an ancient Greek hurrying to propitiate the gods. But Paul Saracen merely cursed the climate and went about his business and remained oblivious to the fact that the floodwater, draining...

This is the diary of Anne Cunningham Bastos, an English girl who marries into a Portuguese family. It is a record of her engagement, the hectic preparations and family difficulties, the country wedding, and of the early months of her entirely new life as a young wife in Portugal, a life divided between...

First time on eBook! One day Jody was found lying at the foot of a staircase on her way to give a client a beauty treatment. When she recovered and talked of a man with a goat and a yellow-and-black front door, her brother-in-law and Charles, her fiancé, told her she was imagining things. But Jody was unconvinced, and determined to find the man she remembered, leading a small goat.

When Jeanne had spent her summer holidays there as a child with her schoolfriend,  Parson’s House, on the cliff top, had been a seaside haven, the small Devon village a sleepy, tranquil place where nothing much ever happened. Now, years later, returning there from Canada, divorced and with...

Natalie Rome, timid and retiring, discovers that a new life at forty is not, after all, as difficult of achievement as she had feared. With new relations and a new home, she finds security and happiness. She also finds a stepdaughter as timid as herself and a stepson of exceptional charm; a mother-in-law...

For Anabelle Baird, the fortnight’s holiday with her fiancé, Philip Ancell, in Lisbon has not been a happy one. At the Lisbon airport she has a surprise encounter with Angus Pemberton whom she had last seen seven years ago when he left Steyne under a cloud and went to Brazil. Anabelle’s...