This title is the new collection of short stories from award-winning author Tessa Hadley. Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting married. The youngest daughter of a large & close-knit family Lottie is nineteen but looks five years younger. Her fiance is Edgar Lennox a composer of religious music & lecturer at Lottie's university forty-five years her senior. It is a story of romantic dreams & daily reality family loyalties tested but holding & the comedy & solace to be found in small moments. Evoking a world that expands beyond the pages it marks the beginning of what is an astonishing collection to treasure. ...

Cameron Paradise a stunningly beautiful twenty-four-year-old personal trainer flees Hawaii & her champion-surfer husband Gregg in the middle of one of his abusive tirades & makes her way to L.A. Tall blonde with a body to die for it doesnt take Cameron long to find a job at an exclusive private fitness club where she encounters LAs most important players. She has plans to open her own studio one day & while every man she meets comes on to her she is more focused on saving money & working very hard than getting caught up in the L.A. scene of wild parties & recreational drugs. Until she meets Ryan Richards an extremely successful independent movie producer. Ryan is married to overly privileged Mandy Richards the daughter of Hamilton J. Heckerling a Hollywood power-player son-of-a-bitch mogul. Ryan has never cheated on his demanding Hollywood Princess wife but when he meets Cameron all bets are off especially since shes seeing his best friend Don Verona the devastatingly attractive talk-show-host & legendary player. In her latest sizzling blockbuster internationally bestselling author Jackie Collins explores what happens when lust & desire collide with marriage & power-and the results lead to murder. ...

Catherine Alliott bestselling author of One Day in May" & "A Crowded Marriage" tells a wonderfully warm & witty story of love loss & laughter in her novel "A Married Man". What could be nicer than living in the country? Lucy Fellowes is in a bind. Shes a widow living in a pokey London flat with two small boys & an erratic income. But when her mother-in-law offers her a converted barn on the familys estate
- she knows its a brilliant opportunity for her & the kids. But theres a problem. The estate is a shrine to Lucys dead husband Ned. The whole family has been unable to get over his death. If shes honest the whole family is far from normal. & if Lucy is to accept this offer shell be putting herself completely in their incapable hands. Which leads to Lucys other problem. Charlie
- the only man since Ned who shes had any feelings for
- lives nearby. The problem? Hes already married... Step into Alliott country with "A Married Man". Praise for Catherine Alliott: "A joy.. .youre in for a treat". (" Daily Express"). "I literally couldnt put this down. An addictive cocktail of wit frivolity & madcap romance". (" Time Out"). Catherine Alliott is the author of twelve bestselling novels: "A Crowded Marriage" "A Married Man" " Not That Kind of Girl" " Going Too Far" " The Old-Girl Network" " Olivias Luck" " Rosie Meadows Regrets..." " The Wedding Day" " The Real Thing" " The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton" " One Day in May" & "A Rural Affair". She lives with her family in Hertfordshire."


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Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. " Why you not stay with me tonight
- in my cave?" Thus begins Marguerite
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If you have a Wild Unruly or Undisciplined Daughter two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter & Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst. When Amy & Effie Tribble two charming but impoverished spinster sisters lose out on an inheritance they place this advertisement in The Morning Post" & hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Vowing to prepare even the most difficult misses for marriage the Tribble sisters will spend a London season on each client educating them in their School for Manners. Miss Harriet Brown daughter of a Methodist minister is the embodiment of propriety & Christian charity
- too much so perhaps for her own good. The virtues Harriet possesses are far from fashionable but the Tribble sisters feel confident their new charge will attract a worthy vicar or two before the end of the season
- if first they can vanquish confirmed rake & gambler Lord Charles Marsham who seems perversely determined to woo Harriet."

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The Marcolini Blackmail Marriage No one asks a Marcolini for a divorce. Especially not a gold-digger who could walk away with the familys fortune! Claire is innocent
- but can she prove it before Antonio Marcolini blackmails her back into his bed? The Valtieri Marriage Deal Isabelle Thompson is convinced it must have been a heady mix of the warm Tuscan sun & the powerful chemistry between herself & Luca Valtieri that made her for once follow her heart. It led her right into the gorgeous Italians bed! Back in London she vows never to contact him. Then Luca arrives & Isabelle discovers that their passionate night has left her pregnant! The Italian Doctors Bride Nic di Angeliss arrival has stirred up considerable interest in the Scottish village of Lochanrig! The gorgeous Italian has won the hearts of the whole village
- apart from that of Dr Hannah Frost. But even she cannot ignore the passionate attraction she feels for Nic forever...

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A comedy of love royals & rampant social climbing from Sunday Times bestselling author WENDY HOLDEN. For fans of GALLERY GIRL & BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. She stopped at nothing. To get everything. Scheming social climber Alexa may be humbly born. But shes a class-hopping cruise missile aimed at the very top of the gold-digging tree. Only a title mansion & family tiara will do. Befriending feckless aristo Florrie (three surnames plus black hole where her brain should be) means the grandest doors swing open & the prince of her dreams is in sight. But has Florries mother the formidable Lady Annabel rumbled what Alexa is up to? Beautiful but penniless student Polly meanwhile is in love. Is Max the handsome young vet shes found in a country lane quite as ordinary as he seems however? Passionate love eye-widening snobbery & more than naked ambition abound in this contemporary Cinderella tale
- a deliciously satirical novel of the upwardly mobile.
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Written by the author of Men are from Mars Women are from Venus" this collection of first-person stories illustrate how couples have successfully put Dr Grays principles to work in their own lives & provides advice & inspiration for readers." ...

Mars & Venus in the Bedroom" offers practical heartfelt & wise advice to help you to transform your love life & enjoy a sexually & emotionally fulfilling relationship. This new edition of John Grays bestselling book explains how to keep passion alive in a long-term relationship & reveals what men & women really want from each other. He understands that there may be differences between you but explains why instead of causing friction these differences can make life much more fun & fulfilling." ...