A towering novel of love, innocence, evil – and of redemption.
In 1946 Lt Sally Jackson returns to Berlin to work on photographic evidence for the Nuremburg Trials, and, there, staring up at her, is the photograph of a handsome SS officer, her husband.
Memories flood back … glorious and deeply painful. Memories of how she fell in love with Christian. Memories of parties, nightclubs and of glittering days spent in pre-war Nazi Germany. Memories of an evil that were to shatter her life…
When Virginia and Jack Sargent took the twins and moved to sunny Southern California, they were filled with hope and eager expectations. But soon, doubt and loneliness crept in. Then – was it by chance? – Virginia met Madeline.
Beautiful, mysterious, irresistible Madeline…who new so much about them, things no one could know…Madeline who made predictions that came true...Madeline who had powers – powers that could make Jack rich, make Virginia famous, make the twins happy.
She moved into their lives, their home…their bed. Madeline the doting friend, the gifted lover.
Her willowy beauty and relentless scheming have taken control of them. Jack knows it. Virginia knows it. Even the twins know it. But no one knows how it will end or what miracle or madness will happen next. Not even Madeline.
Tania was just a child when the Nazis marched into her beloved Warsaw and brutally shattered her world. Orphaned and alone, she vowed to escape the poverty and persecution of her past, living only for the day she would exact her devastating retribution…
From war-ravaged Eastern Europe to the glittering skyline of Manhattan, from her childhood as a ghetto survivor to her dazzling rebirth as the wildly successful entrepreneur and stunning society beauty Antonia Michaels, Tania was driven by all-consuming dreams of success – and revenge.
Those dreams would take her to Israel and Poland, and sweep her into the lives of a war hero, a betrayer, and the one man who could give her everything she had lost – if only she could trust him enough to open her heart…
They met at a small-town infants school and went their separate ways. Children of the have-it-all, classless sixties, ready to make their own rules, their own world – and their own mistakes.
Carmen the natural rebel, grabbing life with both hands from men and a media world as fickle as her own gratifications…
Matthew loud-mouthed wheeler-dealer, greedy for success in excess, flying so high that it’s a long, hard way to fall…
Jackie illegitimate child of an inadequate mother, protected from failure and poverty by her Superwoman shell: until it begins to crack…
Steven the loner, the shy only child, his doubtful sexuality an eternal threat to his father’s conventional goals…
They were the Baby Boomers, God’s own children. They could do anything in the world – except escape from their past.
PIA, young, beautiful, haunted, the sport and plaything of the men in her life:
Stephen Rossi – her prostitute mother’s drunken client, who raped her, and murdered her father.
Sonny Gianturco – who ‘rescued’ her from the slums of Naples to force her onto the streets of London.
Franco Durante – gangland boss, who took her as his mistress and kept her as his possession.
Jimmy Lambert – who loved her for what he thought she was, and refused to swap illusion for reality.
Mike Curtis – who loved her for herself, but denied his love for her sake.
PIA, whose quest for revenge threatened to destroy forever her hopes of redemption.
Cassie Edwards – Sweet Savage Dreams
In the wilds of Minnesota a beautiful white girl teaches a Chippewa brave the meaning of Valentine’s Day, then realizes that she wants to give him her heart along with the gilt-and-lace card she has lovingly created.
Shirl Henke – Billie Jo and the Valentine Crow
A mail-order bride from the hills of Missouri wonders how she can ever replace the Virginia blue blood who was her husband’s first wife. Only he can convince her he doesn’t need a lady to be his valentine, but a real woman
Kathryn Kramer – Exploration of Love
A Victorian miss finds the adventure and excitement she’s always longed for in the rugged explorer who sweeps her into his arms and a new life of limitless possibilities.
Eugenia Riley – Two Hearts in Time
An antique valentine draws two lovers together from modern-day Texas and Dickens’s London to heal the pain of loss and share the discovery of love’s joy
4 stories - 1 book
From frontier Australia to Roaring Twenties New York and Nazi-occupied Paris, lovely Lilli Lavel pursues romance – and the mystery of her aristocratic English father’s identity. Deserted by the irresistibly handsome but profligate Jacques, she raises her two children – and a colossal cosmetics empire – alone. A millionaires, sought after by princes and celebrated for her work as a World War 1 spy, still she cannot discover her father’s name. But she continues to hope – and hope is her only sin…
It was her dream, the ultimate in private clubs, an exotic palace of indulgence for the super weathy…where anything and everything was possible, for a price. Pleasure was the operating principle, and no one who entered the club’s portals would never be the same again. For the amateur, the connoisseur, the voluptuary, or the voyeur, all fantasies were realized, all desires fulfilled.
Marisa Kelly
She was boldness, beauty, and brilliance crowned with a cloud of flaming red hair and an aura of sexuality that fairly sparkled with electricity. Her large ebony eyes glowed wickedly out of the velvety shadows and creamy highlights of a face that promised even more than her spectacular body.
She had now done it all – she had all the thrills, all the clothes and jewels, and enough money to buy almost anything else. Except the one last thing that would make her life complete…
Golden Triple Time …Sensuous, seductive, passionate and shocking.
Golden Triple Time… charts the private traumas and public scandals of studio boss Kit Ransome, who stands to lose everything when her picture, ‘Last Chance’, goes into the most expensive overtime in the movie business.
Golden Triple Time…A dazzling tour de force of power and passion set amid the glittering worlds of movie-making and high finance, where family secrets are laid brutally bare, and destiny stands balanced on a knife-edge.
Pandora Doyle is a soft English rose, escaping from grey memories of childhood and a cold marriage to the glamour of New York’s high society. Here she embarks on a virgin career with Chic magazine, a world-selling glossy. All she has to do to secure her position is find a memorable story…
Arianne de la Force is that story – the beautiful raven-haired widow, the sharp business manipulator and possessor of a vast South American fortune. But underneath the flawless veneer is a woman whose dreadful secrets are hidden from the whole world..
Pandora and Arianne – brought together by ambition, bonded by adversity, tested by danger.
Whirling through the slums of Rio and the fashion halls of Paris, the immense sugar plantations of Argentina and the doomed greed of London in the ’80s, Sugar and Spice heralds the debut of William Gill – tipped to become Britain’s most exciting novelist of the ’90s.
"I was foolish enough to think that you would want to know about the baby. I was trying to be fair to your family…what a joke! You’re much happier you’re your money than you would be with a flesh-and-blood child!"
Young and innocent, Sharon Thompson gave herself willingly to the man of her dreams. Wes Maitland was wild and handsome, hiding his self-destructive impulses under a veneer of charm – until he died in tragic circumstances. He never even knew of the child she carried.
In desperation, Sharon turns to his rich, influential family, but when Wes’s politician brother Reid spurns her, it’s her dearest friend, the sensual blonde beauty Hollis Wendley, who helps Sharon build a new life, far from the hard-hearted Maitlands.
In Santa Fe, Sharon develops her artistic talents and watches her daughter Janis grow into a loving teenager…until tragedy strikes again. Now she is faced with a bitter dilemma, for Janis’s life and her own future depend on the man who spurned her so many years before.
Does Reid Maitland promise hope or heartbreak for Sharon and her beloved daughter?
Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's 43, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a suprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep.
And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluce.
With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationary, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study.
Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, whick he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray.
And perhaps someone else.
Three women of wealth and privilege are the pawns in a battle for power, where money is the glittering reward – and love is the ultimate revenge.
In the elite world of Boston’s rich and powerful, tycoon Nikos Dobias is its uncrowned king. His three daughters are his heiresses apparent – pampered and privileged – until he makes a shocking decision that will plunge them into a race for exclusive control of his multimillion-dollar empire.
GISELLE…The eldest, as ruthlessly driven as her celebrated father, she vows to do whatever it takes to inherit it all – including betray her own flesh and blood.
RENA…The too-trusting middle child, she will do anything to save her marriage, even reveal the Dobiases’ most scandalous secrets to a seductive stranger bent on her wealthy family’s ruin.
COREY…Niko’s youngest and most beloved daughter, she stuns her father – and society – by refusing to compete in his cruel game of money and power. Cut off without a cent, the beautiful heiress must rebuild an empire from nothing. Only one man can help her, the man who has vowed to destroy Nikos Dobias, the man Corey now passionately loves.
Her name was a household word…
Success and fame had come easily to Laura Jordan – perhaps too easily. Family counselor, author, and popular talk-show host, she had built a career on helping others. Laura had a good reason to be satisfied with her life – until a chance encounter with magnetic Jack Towne launched her on an emotional roller-coaster that undermined the very foundations of her self-esteem.
For the first time, Laura became personally involved in a client’s problems, losing her professional objectivity, and becoming a victim of one unscrupulous man’s lust and unquenchable thirst for power.
Three remarkable women have gained wealth in vastly different ways. And together they intend to keep it.
They are the Power Girls. They play the game of success with a killer instinct. They have their own special blend of beauty, charm and intelligence. The finest restaurants, the leading fashion houses, the greatest cities, the most exclusive pleasure spots in the world are arenas for their sport. Princes, lords, diplomats and millionaires adore them. Young, lovely, they have found everything in life they could desire. Now they must find themselves…
She is the all-american woman – Catherine Ward radiates a breathtaking brand of dazzling blonde beauty that could turn into a star model. Yet her bright future is shadowed by a dark past. Ravishing Catherine is no man’s woman. Until she meets Lynell Alan.
He is the perfect man – With sea blue eyes, classic cheekbones, and a body that could inspire fantasies in any woman…and some men. Lynell Alan is the stuff of modeling legends. He knows he has what it takes to reach the top.
But beauty is skin deep – In the chic salons and sleek studios of the fashion jungle, two beautiful people find each other. But in a world where passion and betrayal are cheap allies, love can be destroyed by one vicious, gilded blow…
It is 1947. The war is over but life is still very harsh. Following the death of her husband Joshua, the indomitable Daisy Penny resolves to sell her boarding house in Blackpool to start a new life in the country. But her dream of roses round the door gives way to the reality of a damp, draughty cottage and little money coming in.
To complicate her life even further, she has a devoted admirer in young Dr Armitage, yet finds herself increasingly attached to the outspoken, no-nonsense Bill Tattersall. Soon she must make a choice that will affect her life forever…
Katie Lee…Rosaline…Marinda…and December. Friends from the day they moved into their college room way back in 1972.
Bitter rivals from the day that Schuyler walked into their lives. One by one they fell for his devastating looks and his wild cowboy’s heart.
Through all the years that followed, years that brought them the glittering prizes of success, years that made Schuyler famous, he loved the girls he called his fabulous foursome.
But only one of them will claim him forever. The one who loves him first, the one who uses him, the one who wants him all to herself, or the one who shares his restless soul?
People who’ve never been to Starrs of Texas know its legend: the most fashionable, opulent, expensive store in the world. Built by Arnold Starr, his wife and three sons, it drew its clientele from the wealthy glamour-seekers of three continents – and gained a world of riches for the family.
But now… from behind Starrs’ glittering jewels, the sheen of its lush furs, the chic line of its haute couture originals, secrets are emerging…secrets of ruthless ambition, family hatred, sexual madness and the darkest kind of corruption…secrets power enough to destroy the legend, the family and the whole damned Starr empire.
While his wife taught Latin, failed writer Quinn prowled their Boston apartment, trying to get started on his goddamned novel – and failing, failing again.
One day, looking for a gift for Claire, he noticed a rich young woman walk out of a high-class department store with a handbag on her arm, a bag she hadn’t paid for.
Who was the attractive shoplifter, with her well-bred face and her air of mystery and danger? Would she become the subject of his novel – or merely the object of his feverish, guilty desires?
A woman run mad is the nail-biting thriller of obsession, madness – and dark, uncontrollable lusts that can lead only to a climax of shrieking terror…
Ms Cameron Hightower seemed to have it all: the brains to carve out a financial empire, the beauty to capture the hearts of men by the score, and the ruthless determination to conquer her enemies in the jungle of cut-throat high finance.
Only when Cyrus Hansen came back into her world did she realize how hollow her life had become, how much she didn’t have – and might never get. Cameron was about to discover that, sometimes, having it all just isn’t enough…
Sometimes a woman has to lose everything before she can find herself
Katherine and Craig Fraser had shared ten golden years together. And they were still very much in love. Then one day Craig vanished leaving Katherine with two children, no job, no money: and the discovery that her husband had been living a double life.
Severing all ties with the past, Katherine and her children flee to San Francisco. There she meets the affluent Hayward family – the family which Craig fled fifteen years before.
Swept into the heady world of San Francisco society Katherine forges a new life, richer and more meaningful than anything she had with Craig. Until she realizes it’s not the future which threatens her happiness, but the past and its claim on the most valuable possession of all…
Every woman wants her fantasy to come true – until she learns the cost…
The Lovells had everything: demanding and absorbing careers, two teenage children, a lifestyle of enviable affluence. And they still had their youth. But for sixteen years they knew their most treasured dreams had been put aside in deference to others’ needs. Now, before it was too late, they knew they had to act.
And so Elizabeth and Matt risked everything to buy the newspaper they’d always longed to own, rekindling both their youthful ambitions and the passions of their marriage. Yet in their new-found paradise of power, glamour and wealth they met temptations that never before existed in their small, private world. And the one thing they needed was fast slipping out of reach – each other…
Frances Buckingham is the blonde-haired, long-legged and beloved daughter of a lord. A pure English rose you might think, but her smile gives her away. It’s the ‘come hither’ grin of a raunchy chorus girl who promises more than just a good night out. It is with that look that Frances finds herself working for ‘Macho’ – an all-night club catering for men who are powerful, rich and over-sexed.
Louise Tragos is a Greek straight from the slums of New York. Sensitive about her background, yet determined to get to the top, it’s no-holds-barred as far as her career is concerned, and the world of advertising is providing to be an untapped oyster.
Some years on, Frances and Louise meet and the mix doesn’t gel. Louise is now part of a successful Madison Avenue advertising company, and Frances is married to Sam, Louise’s boss. Both have desires, both have ambition and, above all, both have histories they’d rather forget. Neither woman wants to end up in a role they see as the lowest of the low – the sleeping partner.
From the caverns of Soho to the powerhouses of New York, The Sleeping Partner is an absorbing saga of the advertising world during the 1970’s: a novel that thrills to the end, tracing the lives, loves and wiles of two fascinating young women.
While honeymooning in Barbados, property developer Stephen Reece-Carlton and his bride Christina discover a magical but derelict old colonial mansion. There and then they decided to buy it and turn it into a luxury hotel. Platinum Coast charts the rise of a great international business from these impulsive beginnings.
It is the story of three members of the Carlton family: Stephen, whose ambition breeds ever greater ruthlessness as his business expands, Christina, increasingly neglected by her husband but finding solace in the attentions of a young Englishman, Martin Ward, and Victoria, Stephen’s daughter by an earlier marriage, consumed with loathing for Christina and possessing a devastating secret which can shatter Stephen's empire
Bonnie Fraser is one of life’s victims. Abandoned by her gentle father and growing up under the influence of her sl**tish, self lacerating mother, it is hardly surprising that she finds Angus MacPherson so irresistible, for in a sense he is a replacement for the father she lost. She wants to love him but she also wants to save him from himself. She recognizes the deep black despair which lies under the superficial charm and attraction. What she cannot estimate is the depth of that despair, the violence and unpredictability. And so her romantic ideal is slowly crushed under the cruel blows and savage words which alternate with the periods of love and dependence.
Bonnie is indeed in the shadow of the MacPherson ancestral home, Drummossie Castle, and in the shadow of the unstable, maniacal MacPhersons. Her salvation can only be achieved after a horrifying descent into the valley of the shadow of death.
Seduction – a dangerous tangle of double-deals and jealous love.
Claire – A young widow with no money and no hope until
James – arrives in her life at the same time as a surprise inheritance. Now life is looking up, but not for
Alistair – the family lawyer who has been mad about Claire for years. Then he is swept up in a whirlwind affair with
Elyssa – a gorgeous socialite with plans of her own, for everyone…
Seduction – a snaking path to heartbreak – and delicious revenge.
If you want to know how America’s glossy, glittering jetset dress, shop and get married…Turn to Chapter Seventeen…
If you want to know the secret of hauntingly beautiful top model Sloane Taylor’s dangerous and addictive game…Turn to Chapter Two…
But, if you want a mega-compulsive, high-octane novel of the rich and super rich’s darkest compulsion then read all of the fantasies written by a woman who knows.
Britain in the 20s and 30s – when the gulf between rich and poor had never been greater…
Daughter of a wealthy, aristocratic family, Amy Lovell’s restless spirit is ill-suited to the privileged but restricted world of the debutante and the socialite. Eager to embrace a more purposeful way of life, she turns to nursing, and to the radical politics of the day.
The Lovell family’s world of country house parties and London nightclubs could not be further from the harsh realities which have shaped Nick Penry, Welsh miner and Union activist. When he and Amy meet, they are irresistibly drawn together. Yet everything strives to separate them – Nick’s wife and son, his passionate commitment to the Communist cause which will lead him to fight in Spain – and above all, their profoundly different backgrounds.
When your lover leaves, you can feel utterly worthless. Because you gave your all, and it was not enough.
To make things worse, a mysterious prowler is striking ever closer to her home – and she suspects it may be someone she knows.
Even her friends wonder if Ronda is cracking up. But perhaps she is saner than most…