Gideon has going out with Shirley for two months. She's principled, strong-willed, and beautiful. He enjoys her company, and hopes that one day she will agree to make their relationship official. But there's something he's not telling her. A secret so terrible he's afraid of what she might do if she finds out. When the moon is half-full, Gideon changes into a creature of the forest: a vicious, bloodthirsty werebear. Can he keep his secret for long? And if he doesn't... will she ever accept him as he is? And if she does, will his... animalistic urges be too much for her to handle...?

Jilly Cooper's legendary hero returns!

Rupert Campbell-Black, all-conquering racehorse owner-trainer and handsomest man in England, is in the darkest of places. His adored wife, Taggie, is about to undergo chemotherapy. His beloved leading stallion has been assassinated.

Now his daughter Bianca is badgering him to buy into a failing local football club, Searston Rovers, so he can sign up her superstar striker boyfriend, Feral Jackson, and he and Bianca can return home from Perth to look after Taggie.

Rupert dislikes football and his first impressions of Searston are distinctly unfavourable. But as their new and indelibly competitive Chairman, he won’t stand for anything less than an Everest climb to the top of the Premier League.

With the help of the club’s ravishing and adorable secretary, Tember West, and his sassy Press Officer, Dora Belvedon, he becomes increasingly fond of his riotous mix of players, despite bawling them out whenever they face defeat.

Rupert’s explosive arrival at Searston causes outrage, so the fights are as furious off the field as on – particularly when glamorous WAGS flood in to stir up trouble and lust after Rupert…

Nor do the rival local football team, their duplicitous chairman and their corrupt dealings make things easier – let the scandals, sabotage and seductions begin…

Never Break The Chain is the amazing semi-autobiography of Anthony Harrison's life. It tells the erotic story of an amazing sexual life. But how much of it is true? After all the truth is stranger than fiction.