Bellebrook's Secrets is Helen Stafford's first novel, published in January 2014.

Bellebrook: a place where jealousy, blackmail and lust entwine like ivy creeping through its ancient oaks, with compassion, love and trust.

Alistair Burgoyne, QC and owner of the village manor, assumes he is untouchable, until his family are tousled by Trudy Hampstead, a young girl with more kick and spirit than a lethal cocktail, who proves to be even more toxic than he is.

The residents of Bellebrook all have their own agenda, there’s Matt Lovestock, a local farmer, with an unsuitable ‘townie’ wife, who also has reason to score even with the Burgoynes, his revenge knows no bounds. Lizzie Hampstead, a widow and mother to twins, just wants a quiet life, no such luck… and just what is it about Peter Winrow, the rather insipid, quivering, nervous wreck of a curate? His past is revealed to be deeper and darker than the village well.

How will it all pan out? Will the good people of Bellebrook get their own way?
Some may, some may not, others certainly get what they deserve.

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