Inheritance changes everything, as Ella Kennedy soon discovers when her father dies & the hundred-acre farm she has grown up on & run for years in the Wexford countryside is no longer hers. Hurt & angry following a fight with her brother, Ella leaves her home & people she cares for & joins her wild cousin Kitty in Dublin.

Exiled in the city, Ella is forced to make a new life for herself like the other country girls. She tries to forget the farm, pushing all thoughts of Sean Flanagan, the neighbour she had loved, from her mind. In time she hopes to return to the home she left & find true happiness with a man who wants her for herself, & not what she will bring him.

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John & Cassie are lovers, & partners in a property-development business. When John gambles Cassie away one mis-spent evening in a bizarre game of SM poker, she is won by Brandon Mc Pherson, their rival for the lucrative Harwood building contract. Stripped & subjected to Brandon ...

The Night of the Wolf. On the Avenue in the bleak area where New York City blends into suburbia, the Orphans, their fast Fords & their Chevys 'coated by ice & leather & white dust', prepare to engage in deadly, intricately structured games of combat. It is a world of grotesque, horrifying violence, fear, bravado & drugs, redeemed in the minds of its inhabitants by codes of honour, by chivalrous intentions & by the purity of their struggle for power, dominance, territory. This is the setting of Alice Hoffman's unsparing & unsentimental novel. Her heroine, 17 years old, quick witted yet vulnerable, falls helplessly in love with Mc Kay, the Orphan's 22 year old president & their doomed love story is told in desperate counterpoint to the punk lyrical flippancies of throbbing car radios & jukes. ...

Olivia, an American-born model, married Count Ugo Brunamonti, a feckless, soon impoverished aristocrat. After his death, she supported her children by starting a fashion house which has prospered. When she is kidnapped, the crime is reported to Marshal Guarnaccia by her daughter, who may have been the intended victim.

Kidnapping is almost a second business for the Sardinians nominally engaged in raising sheep in the Tuscan hills. They inhabit a vast wilderness where a victim can be hidden away forever, & where those searching for her will be quickly spotted. The government's official policy is not to permit the payment of ransom. But if the money isn't paid, the kidnappers cannot let their victim go free. It would set a bad example.

In this case, Guarnaccia suspects another problem. Can it be that Olivia's children are unwilling to pay the ransom? Is this more than a random crime?



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