Four contemporary love stories now available in the one book. Love at a Time of Ceaseless Night A 17-year-old student falls in love with a junior doctor working in a hospital ravaged by coronavirus.A chance meeting on a Cornish clifftop brings Athena Rose-Pengelly to a world of hurtful separation as she tries to fit her hopes around the dangers posed by the pandemic. The possibility of infection stalks her every meeting with Anders Jespersen. The handsome young doctor is on the front line working long hours with other overseas staff trying to battle the disease.Against the backdrop of the Cornish coast, two strangers find love in the ancient orchard of Tregethen House - Athena's family home.'The wind that rattled the gorse seemed just for me. The shimmering mass of water was my witness. I, Athena Rose-Pengelly was in love and nothing seemed more perfect - or quite so real.' The Handsome Stranger Two strangers meet by chance in a bustling coffeeshop. Indira Singh has only just begun her holiday in Oxford when she finds herself sharing a table with the handsome art dealer Keever-John Fowey. 'I smiled at Keever as the sun sank low over the tall cupolas and the honey-coloured gables. Oxford had set me down from its dream. A new path lay beckoning. It ran from the verdant hedgerows through the rich fields of rye. And I, Indira Singh, would follow it along by coppices and woodland rides, past the high hedgerows and the banks loaded with flowers, past the crumbling orchard walls topped with honeysuckle on and on….' Infatuation There is to be no ordinary first day at work for Emma Peachwater. When introduced to a handsome co-worker she falls hopelessly in love. What was meant to be her new life in Oxford is now in turmoil as an obsession with the man of her dreams takes hold. Working at a world-famous bookstore in Oxford, she struggles to keep her infatuation secret. Her unbiddable love makes every day so difficult. Love and love alone takes the ardent young woman on a journey into the untrodden lands of the heart. 'His face haunted her. It bore in on some part of herself she could not keep defended. The image of it was an unstaunched thing that left her feeling utterly bereft. And yet, it dealt her such delicious injury, she thought. Every time she thought back to the handshake, it almost pained her. And yet she replayed the image countless times over and could not spirit it away. His face - that face - those eyes. In undergoing its effect on her, she almost felt stripped of a personality, as if she was less a woman than a thing housing some precious commodity.' When Coffee Leads to Love Two strangers find love over coffee. Jannike Rasmussen is on the last day of her holiday when the handsome playwright Emmett Frearson asks to share her table. From a chance encounter, the successful Danish businesswoman is swept up in the hopes of a new, exciting life. 'His angular features seemed to posit the idea of strength and masculinity. And yet it occurred to me that the face was full of contradictions. His powder blue eyes were unbelievably alluring and yet they only radiated kindness and respect. There was, indeed, a quiet self-assurance to his manner which I found entirely disarming. I felt strangely anchored in his presence.'
