Can you trust your wife? Philip Marshall believes he can. He, and she, have, after all, a life of pleasure, a life of luxury, a life of partying on board splendid yachts. His beautiful wife seems loyal too. But then, on board one luxurious vessel, a murder is committed, and Marshall becomes prime suspect, an event that forces him to accept that he has been set up by no other than Michelle. Freewheeling and free-loving French Riviera cop Pierre Labbac investigates a murder on board the luxury yacht Pharaoh and peels back the veneer of civilisation on the glamorous society of the Cote d'Azur to...

Carla Bowman is beautiful, successful, and single. She is also strait laced, and more than a little prudish. She can't understand why her recent relationship broke up, but her friend Jasmine thinks she has a clue. Now, by pure chance from having found a new doctor, Carla learns of the mysterious Black Door Club. What goes on there? It is not easy to find out. Jasmine, being more adventurous than Carla, suggests they pay the club a visit. And, once there, Jasmine thinks the place may be able to do Carla a power of good. About 10000 words

Shortly after Mike and Geraldine Baker take over a hotel in a remote and beautiful Welsh valley, a mysterious object lands in a field nearby. Mike thinks it is a meteorite, but it has unusual features. Later, Mike dreams it is in fact an egg, but, as Geraldine points out, whoever heard of a stone egg? Gradually, it turns out that the object is very unusual indeed, and, equally gradually, for the people living in the valley and the tourists visiting the ruin, heaven turns slowly into hell....