With only a cat for company, Alice sits in the gathering gloom recalling Christmases past. Outside, carol singers with hands outstretched wish Merry Christmas to one and all, but it isn't carol singers who knock on Alice's door this Christmas eve; it's ghosts from her past.

Collingwood Manor drew Emma like a magnet; after her first visit she couldn't keep away. She wasn't afraid of ghosts, and until she'd spent a night on her own in the Manor house, she'd have argued they didn't exist. However, after coming face to face with a troubled spirit, and feeling the evil presence of another, she soon changes her mind. The Manor house has a dark secret, and Emma is determined to find out what it ss. Befriending one fragile little...

There are certain cases our dynamic duo will not take on. Kidnapping is one of them, as they both agree: such cases are best handled by the police.*So what is it that makes Joseph Flint change his mind? His partner is at a loss to understand his decision. His failure to answer draws Georgina deeper into the case as it proceeds. You'll be as astounded as Joe and Georgina (affectionately known as George) are.

One woman's moment of fame on television triggers problems for two people: a vulnerable young woman with everything to live for, and a man, who to keep what happened in his past secret, is tempted to take things to the extreme, including murder if necessary.*Can G. Baxter and Flint, private investigators, sort out this tangled web to the satisfaction of both parties? Or is this just one case too many for our dynamic duo?

Ann thinks she must have taken leave of her senses. She doesn't know the man and yet she offered to put him up and help him get his life back on tract. Harry Webster is a man of mystery, a man hiding from his past. A man whose life, in his eyes, has changed from bearable to unbearable, and he refuses to acknowledge the cause. Common sense tells Ann to send the man packing, but she isn't listening to common sense, and doesn't want to.

Jason thinks he is going mad when he meets a talking cat, and a man who insists he is really a Genie. With the help of his best mate Wayne, Jason goes in search of a missing lamp and finds himself in troubles of the worst kind. An evil Hobgoblin, a Witches broomsticks and a Wizard's book of magic spells, are just some of the things the boys' find themselves up against. Could this dangerous escapade possibly be the chums' last?

Susan is a strong woman; not even the break up of her marriage fazed her. She just picked herself up, brushed herself off and got on with life. She has a firm belief that for every problem there is an answer. However, when she rents a cottage on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds, she finds her motto put to the test. UFOs, a naked man who claims to be an interplanetary agent, and a dangerous escaped prisoner are not typical everyday occurrences in her...

Poppy Berisford has everything going for her: a loving family, more pocket money than the average teenager and much more than her fair share of good looks. So why does she give it all up to go on the run with a boy who has nothing to offer her but toil, sweat and tears? A boy who hasn't even started to shave and like Poppy is under the impression money grows on trees. Is this a story of true love between two teenagers, or just a case of juveniles...

Patrick O'Malley has a problem. Can he ask the woman he loves to marry him and move from her cottage with all its modern conveniences to a farm that has nothing to offer but a tin bath and a peat fire? With Father O' Tool breathing down his neck to make an honest woman of the widow Bridget Flynn, Patrick reluctantly makes up his mind, unaware that Bridget has also made up hers...

When Anne Scrimshaw makes the decision to move her dysfunctional family from the city to a rundown cottage in the Yorkshire Dales, she has no idea what she is taking on. With two broken relationships behind her, a troubled teenage daughter and a six-year-old son, who craves affection, the last thing she needs is a cottage with a history. Although Anne doesn't believe in ghosts, her daughter does and forms a friendship with a ghost called Tom and Silver...