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And in that instant I fall in love. Not just with him, though he is the better part of it, but with them both, with the whole scene: the house, the garden, the magazine perfection of it. And I want very badly to be in this picture.As Edie Jones lies in a bed on the fourteenth floor of a Cambridge hospital, her adult daughter Dido tells their story, starting with the day that changed everything.That was the day when Dido - aged exactly six years and twenty-seven days old - met the handsome Tom Trevelyan, his precocious sister, Harry, and their parents, Angela and David.The day Dido fell in love with a family completely different from her own.Because the Trevelyans were exactly the kind of family six year-old Dido dreamed of. Normal. And Dido's mother, Edie, doesn't do normal. In fact, as Dido has learnt the hard way, normal is the one thing Edie can never be . . .
Ná ouma Leen en oupa Koen se dood besef Jessie dat sy en Janine nie langer op die Weskus sal kan oorleef nie. Sy kry werk in Roodepoort en oortuig Janine om saam te gaan met die belofte van ’n nuwe toekoms.
Janine belowe Bennie dat sy eendag na hom toe sal terugkom. Die nuwe omgewing is alles behalwe gemaklik en hulle is finansieel nog slegter af. Janine se egskeiding word op die langebaan geskuif. Hul lewe verander drasties as die meenthuis se geiser ingee, die Oosthuizens langaan intrek en Werner Hougaardt, die eienaar van die meenthuis vir Janine begin ruikers stuur.
’n Dag se uitstappie saam met Werner bring twyfel in haar hart oor Bennie. So ’n ryk man sal beter as Bennie kan sorg. Jessie se ou studentevriend daag op en Werner se ware motiewe word oopgevlek. Friedrich se dogter, Christine, bied aan om Janine se saak pro bono te doen.
Huweliklokkies lui vir Jessie en Friedrich en Bennie daag onverwags op om Janine weereens van sy liefde en trou te verseker.
Wall Street meets Sons of Anarchy in Bad Deeds, the smouldering,
scorching third novel in the explosively sexy Dirty Money series
from New York Times bestseller Lisa Renee Jones, author of the
Inside Out series. Would you bleed for the one you love? To save
his family empire from the grip of a drug cartel, Shane Brandon is
pushed to the edge of darkness. His brother only thought he knew
what dirty meant. Shane is about to give it new meaning. But there
is another battle brewing inside Shane, and it is to Emily Stevens
he turns for escape. In every one of Shane's seductive demands,
Emily can taste and feel his torment, his struggle to save his
family and not lose himself. She can't just sit back and watch
Shane become everything he hates. But she also fears that her own
dangerous secret could be about to erupt - and be the cause of the
Brandon family's undoing. In this war, blood will spill - and
someone in the heart of the Brandon family will not survive... Are
you ready to play by the hard rules of the Brandon family empire?
Check out the other compelling novels in the Dirty Money series:
Hard Rules and Damage Control.
Tobias King has lived most of his life in the shadows. A loner, and ruthless thief, he’d never deny that he’s a villain. As the enigmatic leader of the band of vigilantes known as the Ravenhood, his life’s ambition has always led in one direction – revenge.
But his path is disrupted when he falls for the one woman that could destroy what he’s spent two decades plotting. His all-consuming passion for Cecelia Horner comes at a great cost, including the loss of all he held dear.
But Tobias is nothing, if not a fighter, and he’s determined to have it all: to settle old scores and win back the woman he loves . . .
Kate Stewart's Ravenhood Trilogy is a gritty, sexy modern romantic day take on Robin Hood with a plethora of breathtaking twists.
Wrecked is the new standalone novel of deliciously dark, deeply
emotional contemporary romance from J. B. Salsbury, the New York
Times bestselling author of Split and The Fighting Series, perfect
for fans of Katy Evans, Jamie McGuire and Sophie Jackson. When you
can't trust yourself, how can you ask anyone else to? It's been
months since Aden Colt left the Army, and still the memories haunt
him. When he moved into a tiny boat off the California coast, he
thought he'd found the perfect place to escape life. Then Sawyer
shows up and turns his simple life upside down. Beautiful and
sophisticated, she seems out of place in this laid-back beach town.
Something is pushing her to experience everything she can -
including Aden. But as much as he wants her, starting a
relationship with Sawyer puts them both at risk. For Aden, the past
doesn't stay there; it shows up unexpectedly, uncontrollably, and
doesn't care whose life it wrecks. He's not like other guys...
Don't miss J. B. Salsbury's unique and explosive romance, Split,
out now.
My stepsister is gone. The ones responsible called themselves family. By blood, and now by marriage. I want to destroy them for what they’ve done. Burn everything they have to the ground. But first I need to find her.
Ryth.
The pathetic, little mouse that scurried into our lives and made a home. I can’t forget her, can’t get her out of my head. She unleashed something dangerous in me. Something that drove me to ruin her. And ruined myself in the process.
She was once a game to me…
She still is…only this time it’s for keeps.
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