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The Wife Who Ran Away
The Wife Who Ran Away

Kate Forrest is invisible… Ned, the husband she adores, doesn't seem to know she's alive, and her two charming children have grown into stroppy adolescents. Her boss is suddenly shunting her towards career Siberia, and her demanding mother is never off the phone. With her fortieth birthday fast approaching, all Kate wants to do is run away from the lot of them. And so she does. On impulse, Kate walks out of her job, her family and her life, and gets on a plane to Italy. With no ties and no responsibilities, she soon finds herself deliriously caught up in La Dolce Vita – and the arms of a man barely half her age. But when the unthinkable threatens her family, Kate is brutally forced to choose between her past and the future.


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Whats Yours is Mine
Whats Yours is Mine

Like a princess in a fairytale, Grace Hamilton has been showered with blessings: professional success, a happy marriage, and she even lives in a beautiful castle. But the only thing she really wants - her heart's desire - is the one thing she can never have.

Her sister, the beautiful Susannah, has made a mess of her life. Like a reverse Midas, everything she touches turns to shit. But the Fate puts Grace's future in Susannah's hands, changing the balance of power between the sisters forever.


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Beat the Bitch!
Beat the Bitch!

Want to keep your man all to yourself? If so, you need to read this book. In Beat the Bitch , Tess Stimson, self-confessed scarlet woman and wronged wife delivers a self-help book with a difference. Written in short, snappy chapters and packed with unmissable advice, anecdotes, quizzes and humor, Beat the Bitch tells every woman things she won't want to hear - but needs to. From this book you will discover: how to put the spark back into your relationship? Whether your partner is vulnerable to attack from another woman? How to find out if he is really being unfaithful...and exactly what to do if he is. Beat the Bitch will be the must-read self-help title of 2009. As Tess herself says, should the worst come to the worst, Don't Get Mad - Get Diamonds.


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The Cradle Snatcher
The Cradle Snatcher

Godsend – or the bane of your life?

Clare Elian has always known the risk of being married to a rich, handsome younger man like Marc. She just never thought she’d be the one to bring the danger home.

But when she gives birth to two gorgeous babies – one of each, naturally – she discovers motherhood isn’t quite the cinch she’d expected. Desperate to escape back to her chic chain of boutique flower shops, she hires Jenna, a confident, efficient nanny keen to escape a relationship that’s suddenly gone terribly wrong.

Before long, a deadly rivalry emerges for control of the nursery. And as events spiral out of their control, both women find themselves forced to make wrenching decisions about love, loyalty and motherhood.


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The Infidelity Chain
The Infidelity Chain

Jackson is married to Ella, who’s sleeping with William, whose wife Beth is falling for daughter Cate’s boyfriend Dan… Ella Stuart has worked hard to achieve her perfectly balanced life. She has a high-flying career as a paediatric doctor, a charming husband in Jackson Garrett, and a passionate lover in William Ashfield. William is happy to have his cake and eat it too, but as his wife slowly emerges from the depression which has stolen her most precious years, it’s her turn to rediscover passion – and not with her husband.

But when tragedy strikes out of the blue, Ella’s carefully ordered life spirals out of control, and she is forced to question the one thing she has held so dear for so long.

And for William and Beth’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Cate, the transition from girlhood to womanhood is suddenly set to be a baptism of fire.

Praise for The Infidelity Chain:

‘a superior tale of immorality and lust… Stimson’s skill ensures we are gripped to the finish. Warmly recommended’ Daily Mail.


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The Adultery Club
The Adultery Club

Life couldn’t be happier for Nicholas Lyon, divorce lawyer and contented husband of the beautiful – if chaotic – Mal, a cookery writer who combines working from a comfortable home in Wiltshire with being mother to their three gorgeous young daughters.

And then Sara Kaplan, a bright, vivacious young lawyer, explodes into his life like a sexual hand grenade.

Nicholas is stunned and horrified by the extent of his attraction to her. But whilst the chemistry between them is palpable, it takes a terrorist attack to force him to recognise his own mortality and throw caution to the wind.

For Sara, what started as a harmless fling swiftly deepens into a painful battle for Nicholas’ heart with Mal, who is not quite as preoccupied in her world of food and school runs as Nicholas had believed.

As Mal faces temptations of her own, she realises she has to decide what she wants; and whether it’s worth fighting for.

THE ADULTERY CLUB is the irresistible story of the perfectly balanced eternal triangle. It’s a club where membership comes at a very high price.


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Pole Position
Pole Position

Stevie Colvin is an unlikely heroine

She has hopeless passions and a tendency to get herself into trouble. In the opinion of her long-suffering best friend Julia, she's a walking black spot who should be sectioned off with cones. But her impulsiveness masks a vivacious charm.

When Stevie lands a job as a nanny to the children of Formula One racing driver Patrick Alexander and his wife Annabel, it's her chance to put her murky past behind her. But that's reckoning without Patrick's junior team-mate, the gorgeous Italian sex god Rafe Dussi, who has set the pulses of Edenfield village racing even faster than he drives.

Only one member of Edenfield, arrogant landowner Charles Cusack, suspects the golden boy of motor racing may not be twenty-four carat...


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Hard News
Hard News

Reporter Christie Bradley, beautiful and brave, is willing to take any risks for her job. It'll take a strong man to hold her. David Cameron has been INN's top war correspondant for ten years. He's survived bullets and bombs, but he's never met the right woman. Together they discover that passion is the hottest story of all.

But love is dangerous in a world where sex is the ultimate weapon. Where the anchor position is more than just a job for newscaster Paragon Fairfax; where ruthless editor Ben Wordsworth would sell his soul for ratings. And where Sir Edward Penhaligon, seemingly INN's one voice of integrity, plans his own, shocking revenge.


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Soft Focus
Soft Focus

Ellie Ferreira is a child of the Brazilian slums. She has known nothing but hunger and violence on the streets of Rio.

Alex Cerreni has only ever loved one person in her life. When he betrays her she is forced to leave her life of privilege and start again with nothing.

Matt Logan has fought hard for his success. One terrible tragedy has cost him everything he ever cared about.

Bound together by fate, the story is one of love, betrayal, and one shocking secret.


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Yours Till the End
Yours Till the End

Jackie Mann, a 75-year-old British pub-keeper in Beirut and a WW II Spitfire pilot, was picked up on the street one morning in 1989 by Palestinian terrorists and held hostage for two and a half years. Kept in chains and isolation, Mann, the oldest of all the hostages taken in the Middle East, kept up a stoic spirit that brought him through the ordeal.

His wife, Sunnie, never knew if he was alive but stayed on in war-torn Beirut, waiting for word.

Alternately, Jack and Sunnie each recount the drama of their daily lives in homely detail, drawing a picture of mutual devotion and staunchness of spirit.


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