by Kate Loveday

Half Moon Bay by Helene Young

For me, this book has everything – suspense, action, intrigue, emotion and romance. Nick Lawson is the man we can all sigh over, handsome, sexy, tough as nails and soft as butter. Elly Wilding is lovely, smart, independent, but vulnerable.

Put them together and you have an excellent book as a gift for the cousin who travels a lot and likes to read in the plane.

If you, too, are looking for intrigue and romance, may we suggest Kate’s novel, Black Mountain, which features a botanist heroine who has discovered a plant with miraculous properties – and the people who will do anything to steal it from her…