Aged sixteen, wayward Victoria McKenzie flees desperate and confused from home in West Lancashire to a commune in Amsterdam and never speaks to her parents again. Now aged thirty five, single and fancy free, she is settled as a senior polymer chemist working in the ailing Ahrendolie refinery in Rotterdam. Following a serious and unsettling plant incident, she is forced into a long recovery break and plans to take off on holiday with Abby, her best friend and designer flatmate, always up for a new challenge. But Victoria is startled to suddenly learn of an unusual inheritance, taking her mind...

With baby triplets Magda, Eve and Geri, nuclear scientist Lauren Hind achieves her idyllic dream life on the Cote d'Azur with husband Philippe, finally released from a Russian prison. But she remains restless to return from maternity leave to the excitement of her company, Cassini, when a daunting series of complications and tension creep into her daily routine involving elder daughter Charlotte, struggling with her own new baby, and best friend Amelie. Philippe's new political interests create unwanted problems of old, raising serious doubts about his true intentions. A long anticipated...