First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

When Natalie Moore is killed in a freak accident in France, her mother, Jessica knows instinctively there is more to it. However, Natalie's father, Charlie is so paralysed by the horror of losing his daughter, that he refuses even to discuss his wife's suspicions. This book presents a story of love, resistance, loyalty and betrayal.

Since Susannah Cates's husband was sent to prison three years ago, life has been a constant struggle to provide for herself and their teenage daughter. Worried by her mother's unhappiness, 13-year-old Neve decides to take matters into her own hands.

A powerful tale of passion and betrayal and a woman's determination to find out the truth about her past -- from the author of The Hornbeam Tree.
A successful editor with a gorgeous husband, two adorable children and a beautiful London home, Julia has everything. But somehow she's still searching. Her beloved father walked out when she was sixteen and no one would tell her why. She's spent all her life missing him but wondering if she has blocked a memory too terrible to even contemplate. Julia's confusion over the past has come to dominate her present and is even threatening her idyllic...

Claudine Rafferty is rich, reckless and beautiful. So when she throws herself into an arranged marriage with the eminently eligible but notorious Francois de Lorvoire, everyone in Paris is amazed. Determined to cope with Francois' cruelty and indifference, Claudine soon finds herself driven to find love in the arms of Armand St Jacques.

Marian Deacon has always been overshadowed by her cousin Madeleine, a selfish model who will stop at nothing to reach the top. But their lives suddenly change with the arrival of Paul O'Connell, a charismatic writer who draws them into the mysterious disappearance of Olivia Hastings and the glamour and danger of her life in Italy and New York.

When Sandy Paull lands a job with one of London's theatrical agencies her dreams appear to be coming true, particularly when she meets Michael McCann, her handsome boss. Ellen Shelby has Hollywood at her feet. When she meets her rival, Michael McCann, there is a powerful attraction between them that they are powerless to deny.

When Alicia Carlyle returns to the home of her childhood after the tragic death of her husband, she is hoping to put the past behind her. But first she must come face to face with the woman who nearly destroyed her marriage and tore her family in two - her sister-in-law, Sabrina.

Jenneen, Kate, Ellamarie and Ashley are enviable women. They are desirable and powerful, with glamorous jobs in the media and the theatre and, the closest of friendships. But each of the friends has a dark secret, and none of them can ever be safe from the passion, deceit and danger which threatens to seduce and then destroy them.

Corrie Browne can't wait to escape her very ordinary life in Suffolk for what she believes will be a glamorous life in London's television world. But she soon finds that her beauty & ambition are more than some people can handle.