The nine stories in You Are Not a Stranger Here are set in Los Angeles, the Midwest, New England & Engl&. What unites them is the refined writing & a raw emotional power that carries the reader past the surface of the subject & into the core of the characters' lives. There is grief, passion, loneliness, humour & longing in these stories, but ultimately the book sets off the shock of recognition that takes readers past the clich-d language of human suffering & brings them to understand their own experience through the characters' lives. ...

The nine stories in You Are Not a Stranger Here are set in Los Angeles, the Midwest, New England & Engl&. What unites them is the refined writing & a raw emotional power that carries the reader past the surface of the subject & into the core of the characters' lives. There is grief, passion, loneliness, humour & longing in these stories, but ultimately the book sets off the shock of recognition that takes readers past the clich-d language of human suffering & brings them to understand their own experience through the characters' lives. ...

The credit crunch is one of those once in a generation moments when everyone stops to think about what things are really worth. Because after years of rampant greed & unsustainable dem&, Oscar Wilde's description of a cynic was starting to apply to all of us ...

No man existed who could tame Alexandra Rubliov. Fiery, wilful & beautiful, Alex defied her father's wish for her to marry until, in desperation, he recalled a long-forgotten agreement between him & his oldest friend that Alex should marry his friend's only son, Count Vasili Petroff. Vasili, overbearing, arrogant & unbelievably handsome, was forced to take the unwilling Alex back to the kingdom of Cardinia
- as his bride.

While the unwilling pair travelled through the snowy mountains back to Vasili's home they did their best to repulse each other
- but the passion which flared between them was too strong to be denied, & the fires of their love blazed for all to see.



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