Love can rule your life. Change your personality. Your everyday existence can be shaped by the opinion of one person. It seems crazy - so why do we do it? Why do we let the thoughts of someone else govern our decisions and actions? He had his heart broken by his one true love, and cannot see a way forward in life. Having alienated himself from his family and friends, he works nights and shuns normal society. But not even disrupted sleep and depression can explain the strange behaviours that will suddenly take over him. It all escalates on an unassuming night, when he returns home to find a woman asleep in his driveway. Waiting.One probes the extremes we go to for love; the extent of emotional influence; the scars we leave on each other. The novel asks, who do you become when you're driven to obsession? Fast-paced, immediate and perceptive, One is the highly original second novel from a young Australian writer establishing himself as a major talent. Views: 44
Victory is on the horizon, but will it bring lasting happiness for Martha's beloved girls? Irene loves her job at the aircraft factory but her pregnancy is making the work increasingly difficult. She feels her job and her independence slipping away. How will she cope when the baby arrives? Peggy falls under the spell of a dashing Guards officer. Much older than her and a sophisticated man of the world, he persuades Peggy to keep their relationship quiet. But does the major have other secrets too? Pat has overcome tragedy and found love again. But then her fiancé, US Army captain Tony Farrelly, is posted to North Africa, and Pat teeters on the edge of heartbreak once more. Sheila, the youngest of the girls, has met a teacher who seems the perfect match – but she still longs for excitement. A chance encounter with a recruiting sergeant for the WAAF takes her away from home – and towards danger and romance. If you've read Martha's Girls and The Golden Sisters,... Views: 44
Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's been sleeping with Richard... As a hot, feverish summer of snatched weekends, secret phone calls and illicit lovemaking on the beach comes to a head, it turns out everyone knows more than they've been letting on. And that no one knows quite when to stop. Views: 44
The fourth installment in this award-winning mystery series draws actor-turned-super-sleuth Tennyson Hardwick into his most challenging case, compelling him to face the unthinkable: save his daughter or the woman he loves.South by Southeast, a title inspired by the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, finds Tennyson and his family in South Beach, Florida, where he is filming his role in a television detective series. Ten's soon-to-be-adopted daughter, Chela, runs into old friend Maria from her earlier days as a prostitute in Los Angeles. The pair dives into the South Beach club scene, but Maria mysteriously goes missing. When Maria's body washes ashore, Chela and the authorities fear that her suspicious death is connected to a serial killer preying on young prostitutes. Tennyson believes he knows who the killer is, but the suspect escapes when the actor-detective tries to capture him. When it's believed the suspected killer may have committed suicide... Views: 44
After thirteen years, all passion spent, Ellen and Richard have called it a day. With her life in suitcases and boxes, Ellen agrees to help her parents sell their unoccupied Cotswold cottage – then she plans to travel the world. Little does she know that idyllic Oddlode contains the world’s sexiest hell-raiser, and she finds herself travelling uncharted waters to unknown territory – headlong into love. Views: 44
Such Sweet Poison: Morgan didn't understand Catherine's reaction to his invitation. 'I'm not asking you to go to bed with me...it's just dinner.' Yet Catherine was wary. After a failed marriage, she'd finally pulled the pieces of her life together. Now content with her quiet life, in spite of the urging of well-meaning friends, she wasn't interested in finding a new man.Morgan Lynch - attractive, articulate and clearly haunted by an unhappy past - who intrigued and challenged her. But involvement? Catherine just wasn't sureBlind Passion: One night of passion - that was all they'd shared. And that had been ten years ago. Helen Caldwell had certainly tried to forget the past, but she knew she hadn't succeeded. And then her world turned upside down.When Helen least expected it - on what should have been an idyllic holiday in Bermuda - she had to face the fact that things really weren't over. Because Reed Wyatt was quite right in assuming she still remembered... Views: 44
Sean and Scarlet’s love progressed over time, growing until it became the blaze that it is now, but how did their relationship begin? In the prologue of the bestselling Forever and Always Series, we see the start of their friendship and their first meeting. When Sean meets Scarlet, his thoughts aren’t exactly chivalrous, and neither are hers. Were they ever really friends? Views: 44
