Karen Mason: 18 books

It’s 1912 and on-board the Titanic are two women from very different walks of life. Alice Higgins is an impoverished music hall performer, heavily pregnant and running away with her bounder boyfriend to start a new life in America. Nesta Villiers is the wealthy wife of a brutal man, and is escaping...

The honeymoon period is definitely over for Phillipa Hardcastle. Husband Joe is on secondment with the CIA and Phillipa has been left to her own devices. She throws herself into work, trying to clear the name of Jordan Garry, a young man accused of instigating riots that have broken out across South...

Diana Osbourne has everything a 1950s housewife could want - a beautiful house in Chelsea, a seemingly happy marriage to an MP and two teenage daughters. Her life is thrown into turmoil when Charles, her husband, is arrested after being caught with rent boys. Diana’s perfect world suddenly is blown...

It’s 1978 and cousins Ellie Grantham and Viva Collins are eighteen years old.A sheltered schoolgirl, Ellie has lived in the protection of Annie Holland, her mother as well as her father and stepfather. She longs to escape the confines of boarding school, and when she meets a handsome punk rocker,...

Farrah O’Rourke has spent her adult life breaking the law; opening an illegal rave club and marrying a gangster - she likes nothing more than living on the edge. Recently widowed, she is struggling to get on with life, when a bombshell is dropped upon her – she’s the twin sister of Antonia Smedley,...

The sequel to The Exciting Life and the next instalment of the Never Forget saga. It is now 1960 and Annie Holland and Iris Lindholm are determined to make their mark in the world of fashion. But the sisters remain deadly enemies, and while Iris makes a success of her fashion house, she struggles...

Phillipa Hardcastle’s days as a PI specialising in honeytraps is far behind her, and she is once again a serious detective. Nicknamed ‘Sherlock’ by her teenage daughter, she’s regularly hired as a consultant by City of London Police and has worked on some high-profile cases. When Levi O’Neill,...

World famous novelist, Patty Belleville, has gone missing. Her books about Jezebel Cole, the high-class prostitute have made her a household name, but when she releases Two Hearts, a romantic novel that flops, she decides to disappear. Her three daughters, Sasha, Rorie and Dana all have their own...

Elizabeth Maine 1950s starlet, 70s sex symbol and 80s US soap queen has been lured out of retirement to star in Eastwood Avenue, a British soap opera. What her fans don’t know is that Elizabeth’s upper class image is a lie; she is really Lizzie Gallagher from Liverpool; a single mother at 15,...

Private Investigator Phillipa Hardcastle’s last exciting case was three years ago, when she helped find missing novelist Patty Belleville. Since then her life has returned to the humdrum world of chasing cheating husbands, making ends meet, and being both mother and father to Maisie, her teenage...

The sequel to Never Forget and the start of a whole new saga….. It’s 1959 and Annie and Kenneth Holland, the brother and sister adopted by Nesta Villiers at the start of World War II have grown up into very different people. At just 25 Annie is a widow, after Mario, her racing driver husband...

Book five of the Never Forget saga. It is 1985 and Ellie and Viva are true women of their time. Both are trying hard to have it all - a career, children and a great relationship with their new husbands. However, things aren't going to plan. Ellie is struggling to be a step-mother to two teenage...

It is 1999, and sisters Angel and Rio are growing up fast. Angel is the spoilt stage school brat who is part of a chart-topping pop act, but longs for credibility. Rio is trying to forge her own way in the world, working for Morgan Collins, her film star aunt, as a nanny, and trying to avoid the wandering...

House of Valentine is one of the world’s biggest cosmetics companies, but the recession is biting and sales are falling. The company’s formidable boss, Violet Spencer is determined to turn House of Valentine’s fortunes around before she retires, and so launches a new brand that takes the company...