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The Lotus Petals
Is our fate predetermined or can we carve our own path in life? Fariba, the protagonist of this captivating novel, lives a carefree life, blissfully unaware of the changes happening around her and the impact of her own actions on the world.
But when a small event alters the course of her life, Fariba is forced to confront the idea that perhaps our destinies are not set in stone. As she navigates the unpredictable twists and turns of fate, she begins to question the very nature of existence and the role of free will in shaping our lives.
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The Lodgers
Lynsey Logan, a London-based novelist, usually keeps the plots of her novels a secret. One evening, her best friend, Emma Carmichael, comes to discuss her list of characters, who Lynsey finds most unpleasant. The worst character is a Broadway ‘hoofer’, a song and dance queen called Lynda Lombardi who is appearing in a Broadway show called ‘Bitches on Broadway’. She has a daughter called Isabel, and a highly objectionable grandson called Peter, whose chief desire is to murder his grandmother, so he, his mum and dad could inherit her house in Beverly Hills.
Lynsey is horrified to wake up the next morning to discover that all her characters have moved into her apartment in Belsize Park and declare they have come to lodge with her. Like a good hostess, Lynsey takes Isabel and Peter to the Tower of London and arranges for Lynda to tour the National Theatre in London. She also arranges for her friend, Emma, to come and meet them all one evening; Lynsey and Lynda cook up a big chilli, and after a heavy meal and too much red wine, Emma decides to stay the night.
Much to Lynsey’s horror, they wake up in New York, in an apartment that Lynda has rented in New York, minus clothes or papers. Emma insists on seeing the sights of New York, and she and Lynsey visit the Tenement Museum in downtown New York where they visit the famous Katz Deli. After seeing Lynda in her ‘Bitches on Broadway’ show, they get arrested for being mixed up in a #MeToo demonstration outside the theatre. Lynda is now keen for them to return to London. Lynda’s agent arranges for Emma and Lynsey to return to Southampton on a Cunard Liner returning after an onboard literary festival if Lynsey teaches some creative writing courses during the return cruise. He also arranges for Lynsey’s neighbour to use her key safe to extract her passport from her apartment and do the same in Emma’s apartment. This works and the three of them return by taxi to London. Lynsey happily packs up all the clothes she has borrowed to post back to New York, then goes to bed exhausted. She is awoken the next morning by the sound of somebody moving around her apartment, is it all happening again?
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The Lake: Book 2
Sophie Tuck is supervising her classroom examinations, and with the end of the school year looming, she is looking forward to attending her friends Bianca and Max’s engagement party in Lake Como during the summer. However, there is only one thought keeping her apprehensive. There, she will see again the one man she’d rather stay away from, Andrea Del Toro. Despite his girlish name, he is all male and as hot as they come but, without a doubt, an undeterred womaniser. This thought is driving her crazy. Their fortuitous kiss months ago is still vivid in Sophie’s memory. She can’t stop thinking about him. Nevertheless, her predisposition is to flee rather than open up her heart to a man. There is sexual tension between Andrea and Sophie and sparks fly but circumstances take a surprisingly turn of events. Will their love flourish? Matters take a dangerous direction when Max’s destructive ex-girlfriend returns, seeking revenge over Bianca’s engagement.
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The Lake .
In Emotion, the reader moves through the many facets of ‘love’.
The blossoming love between Bianca and Max is romantic, passionate and life enhancing at its best. For Bianca, it is the new-found beginning that she is searching for.
However, the overwhelming obsessive desire and darker nature of a one-sided compulsive love—destructive and dangerous—is on their heels. This love is eating away at Grazia, Max’s ex-girlfriend. An obsession which, uncontrolled, has devastating and disastrous consequences.
You should neither take love for granted, nor should you fear it.
It is set in the beautiful, dreamy and romantic backdrop of Lake Como in Italy. The readers will feel that they are there with the characters, feeling the love, happiness, suspense, fear and anguish, and, candidly, they will enjoy the sexy and sensual scenes in the book too!
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The Journey of Self Discovery
Sitting on a bench at Cape Town International Airport, Annie finds herself at a crossroads, deciding between the life she thought she wanted and the life she deserves. Growing up on the Cape Flats she always desired a life of privilege, but in the end that’s not what she ended up getting.
She starts isolating herself from everything she knows and loves to satisfy the person she believed she loved, and for the life she thought she deserved. She soon starts realising that something is wrong, but is unsure how to reach out to her loved ones.
This book takes you on a journey of a young woman who must figure out the path to herself and to God by taking the hard road. She gets to know what prayer is and how to start speaking to God again.
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The Journal
It is inevitable that sometimes change is needed in our lives. For good or for bad, we make decisions to leave behind all we’ve known, to start something new.
With all the pain that lay heavily and stubbornly within her heart and mind, a much welcomed and timely invitation from the only person she could trust and confide in, gave Beth the strength to make this big change in her life. She arrived in the charming village of Burnsall, deep in the heart of the Yorkshire dales, to begin a new chapter.
Leaving the city of her birth and everything she knew behind was a brave decision. With a determined mind, she embraces her new role as a teacher. All seems well, but her heart holds a painful secret and her diary is always in her mind. Its contents would affect her life’s journey, a journey which takes her to places that would open her mind to a whole new world…. But always hidden away is the diary and its dark secrets.
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The Infinity Pool
Lia Westlake works for a company that designs the insides of million-pound properties. After leaving University she started working for Tony Grossman and his partner Mark James, but an Infinity Pool she designed at the beginning of her career becomes a problem, and it’s serious. She has no way of proving her innocence and she is being pursued by a senior, Dominic Delgado, who is determined to punish her for what his friend Rosso Valentino left in a letter in his will that Senior Dominic Delgado is executor to. Lia suddenly finds herself actually working for the man when he buys the apartment block she was working on, the threats eventually get to the point that she disappears abroad to get away from the pressure. When he finds her Dominic Delgado is determined to punish her in a way she will never forget, but not seeing her doing her job he begins to think maybe Rosso Valentino was mistaken? He goes down a different avenue investigating Lia Westgate and what he finds makes him angry and determined to find her.
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The Great History of the Manor Bouchove Part 3: La Licorne and the Labyrinth
Having lived in a house the villagers of Bouchove sweetly call châtelet, I realised I have enjoyed a privileged life. This is also true for the place of my birth, Maastricht—the most beautiful town of the world, I shamelessly claim. I have grown up there in a good family with ten children. Eighteen years old, I started my study on Rural Development in Wageningen, which is the smallest university town of the Netherlands.
There, I had the luck to find my lifetime wife, who followed me to all the places in the world my ambitions reached for. She gave birth to our two daughters and a son—three children we raised together and who developed along different lines into worthy individuals.
Looking back on all this, I praise my luck and thank the Lord for it.
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The Good Life
Jimmy Cartwright, a young and handsome teenager, loses his virginity whilst on holiday in Spain. Chrissy Bennett is a young school girl who leads a normal uneventful life with her parents and two siblings. They meet briefly at school where Jimmy leaves a young impressionable Chrissy besotted before he suddenly disappears from her life.
Six years later fate intervenes to reconcile the young couple, but Chrissy can not foresee how this reunion would change her and her family's lives so dramatically, escalating into betrayal then murder.
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The Feather
Grace is replaying every day like it’s Groundhog Day. Travelling, work, drinks at the local pub with the chance of spending the night with her best friend as her consolation prize. The only thing keeping her mind occupied is the mysterious comings and goings of the removal and work vans next door.
A man in a white suit draws her attention as she walks quickly to get her bus home from another day at work. A stumble off a rain-soaked pavement in Edinburgh sparks a chance meeting with her new neighbour and the beginning of a relationship that doesn’t just take her by surprise.
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The Dawn Birds
This is a story in which love, faith and loyalty collide over a series of decades. The tale is told in turn by three friends who meet at college, namely Elda, Luke and Gordon. She is a young student mesmerised by the personality of ‘Father’ Luke who is a Jesuit priest with ideas that don’t always accord with Church dogma, especially when it comes to love. ‘He loves me, he loves me not,’ she would repeat at night whilst he knelt dutifully at his prayers.
An antidote to Luke was Gordon and his kilt. And so, they went their separate ways only to meet up again later in life, in Africa, with a whole new set of challenges, disasters and ultimate triumph.
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The Curious Tale of a French Salesman
Lionel, a young travelling salesman, works for a company selling electrical products. He and his family endured a dreadful time during the Second World War, but life is comfortable for them now. An excellent salesman, he is confident in his work, but rather shy with young women. He regrets never having had a girlfriend.His manager offers him the chance to pay a week’s visit to a part of France of his own choosing, where the company do not currently do any business, to see if he can obtain orders there. He readily agrees and consults his family. For some reason, his grandmother is impelled to suggest that he should go to northeast France, near the border with Belgium.Upon arrival, he discovers in a very strange way an unexpected fact about his family’s history. There is a prospect of romance for him, but will work pressures and his shyness get in the way of finding love?At times he meets with anti-Semitism, which shocks him particularly as he is patriotically French, with secular attitudes. He encounters fascinating characters, whose lives have been impacted by the World Wars, sometimes tragically.How will his life at work and at a personal level evolve? Will he succeed in business, as well as finding true love?
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