Marina is to outsiders an over indulged child, but she lives a sad and lonely life never fitting in anywhere. And with all her father's wealth, she finds that money can't buy friends or love...

Isobel has run away from the man of her dreams, hiding away in the middle of nowhere, but he wants to find her, and he's nothing if not persistent. For Isobel she needs to deal with both her past and his to even think about a future together, but then nothing is ever as it seems, and with every action there's a consequence, the trick is to survive...

Violet Parker's life has changed beyond recognition. The sudden death of her mother has seen her become the guardian of her eight year old twin brother and sister. Suddenly her care free round the World trip has given way to homework, cleaning and trying desperately to make her pennies last. But then she's contacted and a name from the past opens up doors that she never imagined.

Laura lives a happy, yet simple life on the Welsh coast. It's a million miles from the cut and thrust world of her parents. But she's happy, until a stranger to the area causes ripples of change everywhere from the sleepy Welsh village to London and beyond, and nothing will ever be the same again. Until this moment Laura had been happy with life, but nothing lasts forever, and her silly games of survival won't work any more.

Maddie sees her twenty fifth birthday as being the turning point in her life. She feels unloved and worthless, she made one mistake as a teenager and it's hung over her ever since. But she has a new job on the horizon, and this could be what she needs to kick start her plans, see her start to live at last. With a spring in her step she looks to the future until she realises that all is not as it seems, and nothing is ever that easy.

Amelia Parkin is a successful woman, a geek in school, she's now a highflying banker in London. She has the world at her feet, with doors starting to open for her. Then like a punch in the stomach a face appears in her world that drags her back to her childhood, an unhappy time. Sol Tanner is directly responsible for everything that has gone wrong in her life. And she hates him....doesn't she?

Jess is a tomboy and runs her own landscaping business and she loves it. Her best friend is the complete opposite, glamorous and beautiful, and as usual Jess is dragged along in her wake. But in the background is where she's happiest. Despite all this, she lives in fear of her past coming back to haunt her, the daughter of a pious vicar, she rarely visits her home, either physically or mentally. As she wins a huge work contract and plans to expand her business she really feels that the world is her oyster. Nothing can disrupt that. Can it?

Katie rushes home after hearing her father is ill. She's been away for years after huge family rifts. She's been happy living in Mexico, married, successful, but coming back to the place she doesn't call home anymore sees EVERYTHING change. Can she overcome the shocks, betrayals and uprooting to be happy once again? Another old Buzzle story that's being revamped and brought up to date. Hope you enjoy, and please comment!

Rebuild! When you hit rock bottom there's only one place to go. For Erin Thomas a move, a new job and hopefully a new start was what she needed to bury the last few disastrous years. But she didn't count on meeting magnanimous and famous Jack Reilly. She'd sworn she'd not get into another relationship, but does he have other ideas?

When a blast from the past lands on her doormat, Sophie Beck feels inadequate to face the demons of her youth - namely Miles Langley. She's trying to craft her way as an illustrator, despite the scorn of her ultra successful brother, and knows that she's not yet the person she wants to be when she confronts her painful childhood crush. Up step her best friends, Vincenza helping with the sophistication, and reluctantly reliable, dashing Bill stands in as her date. All goes well, but afterwards relationships change, and as she faces losing her best friends she tries desperately to push her fledgling career and keep herself out of poverty.