London Metropolitan Commander Amanda Dansie, SAS trained, is badly wounded during an engagement in which four of her team are killed. Suddenly she is transformed from an incredibly fit, active young woman into a semi-invalid with a shattered kneecap. 4 years previously she had accused Colonel Mark Young of neglect when her fiance whom she had known since she was three years old, was killed in Afghanistan. Mark had been exonerated. There was no way he could have prevented Andrew with two soldiers being killed as other soldiers before and since. In hospital with the same tragedy happening to...

London Metropolitan Commander Amanda Dansie, SAS trained, is badly wounded during an engagement in which four of her team are killed. Suddenly she is transformed from an incredibly fit, active young woman into a semi-invalid with a shattered kneecap. 4 years previously she had accused Colonel Mark Young of neglect when her fiance whom she had known since she was three years old, was killed in Afghanistan. Mark had been exonerated. There was no way he could have prevented Andrew with two soldiers being killed as other soldiers before and since. In hospital with the same tragedy happening to...

Prolific writer publishes latest romantic novel, ably sweeping readers up into the captivating drama of international fashion. Mademoiselle Fleur DuPre hails from remarkably affluent stock, but she is determined not to rest on her family's privileged laurels. Her parents may breed thoroughbred racehorses at their stud farm in Paris, and her paternal grandparents might be the owners of prestigious jewellers' shops in Paris and London, but Fleur is quietly resolved to break away from tradition and to make it on her own merits. Fleur is only twenty-four years old, but she already has the fashion...

Meeting at a charity dinner and continuing to meet Jason and virgin Marigold knew they were in love. At Jason's home after her first visit for Sunday lunch, as Marigold was changing afterwards for riding in the wood, through the open windows she heard Jason's mother, Lady Norton discussing her. "We mustn't encourage her. She would be unsuitable for Jason. With her infamous aunt's many affairs she would drag his career down. He will be taking Silk and then going on to be a Judge." Heartbroken Marigold fled to Cornwall to be with her ex nanny before she started work in her aunt's fashion store....

French Olivier Ventre rang his good friend Jordan Royle from his Cambridge University days, a well-respected owner of a prestigious London department store. To his surprise, Jordan and not the voice mail, answered. After greetings and enquiries, Olivier told him, "I'm coming with my sister, Sharlyne, to stay with our grandparents, Jordan. Sharlyne, having completed university and on the principal's recommendation, has been offered an interview for a prestigious position based in London. Sharlyne has worked so hard, gaining master's with honours in her degrees, and we are all so proud of her....

French Olivier Ventre rang his good friend Jordan Royle from his Cambridge University days, a well-respected owner of a prestigious London department store. To his surprise, Jordan and not the voice mail, answered. After greetings and enquiries, Olivier told him, "I'm coming with my sister, Sharlyne, to stay with our grandparents, Jordan. Sharlyne, having completed university and on the principal's recommendation, has been offered an interview for a prestigious position based in London. Sharlyne has worked so hard, gaining master's with honours in her degrees, and we are all so proud of her....

Twenty-four-year-old London Lucy Locke is unable to sleep and can eat only the minimum, being filled with remorse and guilt that her paternal grandfather, parents, and two younger sisters were killed in a horrific motor way crash on their way to pick her up from the airport.

Having spent Christmas with her maternal grandparents in Portugal as they were unable to travel and the pressure of her work, she had felt she had neglected them, so she used this opportunity.

Lying awake as usual, she remembered a memory from her childhood. In the morning, she pursued this memory, and...