by Diane Chamberlain (2011)
Joelle D'Angelo's best friend, Mara, is left with brain damage after she suffers an aneurysm giving birth to her son. Alone and grieving, Joelle turns to the only other person who understands her pain: her colleague - and Mara's husband - Liam. What starts out as comfort between friends gradually becomes something more.
C.C. Medina
"Isabel, Mercy, Lucinda, and Julia. Over tapas and glasses of Cointreau, these four amigas laugh at the absurdity of life and shed bitter-sweet tears over the injustice of it all. In the end, their values are universal."--BOOK JACKET.
Netta Muskett
Sir Blaine Belding was highly respected and liked by his friends and medical colleagues alike. Then Virginia Coley came into his life. He was totally captivated and whilst she was from a world very different from his, he nonetheless made her his wife. Things have not worked out, and he has slowly realised that whilst beautiful, Virginia is shallow and they are entirely unsuited. The problem has become exacerbated as Blaine has met another woman. She not only inspires him by her courage and self-sacrifice, but also displays a gentleness and demeanour which raises the prospect of a more tender and deeper love than he has ever before experienced.
Dorothy Speak
Linked by themes of desire and adultery, the nine diamond-hard stories that comprise this collection tell of the disappointments and reconciliations of women whose lives have fallen out from under them. A woman's husband is carrying on with her best friend. A dentist's assistant is pleading with her much older boss to leave his wife and move in with her. A mother is abandoned late in life by her daughter and then by her husband. From these seemingly devastating situations, each must rise, gather her strewn possessions, and move forth without bitterness or despair. Salvation comes through small acts of defiance - a shattered greenhouse, a mailbox fouled by raw liver, sex with a cousin's husband - or through the more lasting balm of slow self-recovery.
Alison Roberts
The man behind the crown... The clock is ticking for Prince Raoul de Poitier - he's been granted one month of freedom before he must marry and assume the crown. Temporarily setting aside his royal identity, he heads to gorgeous Italy, where he meets captivating Mika Gordon... Street kid turned photographer Mika doesn't trust easily. But seemingly ordinary Raoul challenges her to open up. Their whirlwind fling can only ever be a perfect holiday romance... until Mika discovers that she is carrying the next heir to the throne...!