Volume Three of The Roxberg Trilogy A premeditated act of revenge sends adventurous restaurant owner Gaston Villande on a dangerous mission to Venice, where he becomes the target of victimisation and attack from members of his wife's extended family. Gaston is no stranger to personal risk, but as the conspiracy deepens and danger threatens, he will be forced to escalate an old vendetta to a level he could never have envisaged, a level calculated to bring yet more tragedy to himself and his family. His enemies are closing in, planning reprisals, arming themselves, intent on revenge for the sudden death of a prominent family member and the recovery of his property. Who will win this final battle? Gaston is leaving nothing to chance; it's win or die.

Volume two of The Roxberg Trilogy After the birth of her second daughter, Inez Roxberg a wealthy spirited artist from Madrid, distanced herself from her unfaithful husband, his mistress, and their love child to pursue an uninhibited bohemian life in France. Many years later, standing at his graveside, she vowed never again to relinquish her wealth and power to anyone. Her late husband's final gift of a long-case clock becomes an ill-fated harbinger of sinister deceptions calculated to steal her wealth and erode her sanity. When two men enter her life, one a bold adventurer, the other a tantalising libertine each with their own hidden agenda, who will she choose, who dare she trust with her life? Haunted to the point of obsession by the tragic death of her eldest daughter Honore, Inez embarks on a quest to discover the truth and serve justice on her killer. Oblivious to the destructive forces surrounding her, Inez unknowingly descends into a criminal underworld of art forgery, a forced marriage and death.

Art gallery curator Giselle Villande and her husband, an antique dealer from Menton in the south of France, find themselves drawn into an insidious web of poisoning and murder motivated by financial greed and sexual jealousy. Nebulous tendrils of evil draw them still further to Paris and Honfluer then finally to Giselle's isolated family home on the wild and beautiful Northumbrian coast. In this sexually-charged labyrinthine conspiracy a plot is afoot to undermine and ultimately destroy Giselle's family.