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Less brief description goes here  The text you type here will appear directly below the image HOW TO SEDUCE A GHOST - Hope McIntyre
HOW TO SEDUCE A GHOST is the first in a series of mysteries featuring Lee Bartholomew - a neurotic 38 year old with a curious reluctance to settle down with her boyfriend of eight years. Lee is a ghostwriter whose assignments have an unnerving tendency to involve her in murder investigations. She lives alone - by choice - in her parent's giant London house in Notting Hill yet every night she lies awake quaking with fear at the thought of the violent crime erupting just the other side of her front door. Someone is setting fire to houses in the area - along with their occupants and Lee's neighbor, Children's TV prsenter Astrid McKenzie, is the first victim. And when she lands the plum job of ghosting the autobiography of American soap star Selma Walker, Lee finds herself unwittingly not only at the center of the arson/murder investigations, but also in the arms of a new and highly dangerous lover. COMING IN JANUARY 2007 HOW TO MARRY A GHOST THE BOATHOUSE
Molly Page is only 11 when she tells her father she’ll look after him forever. Since her mother died years before, it’s been just the two of them, caring for each other. Then the Murphys move in next door to their home in the London suburbs. Nora Murphy is Molly’s dream of what a mother should be – then there are her sons: irrepressible Warren with his soft heart and grand ambitions; Pete with his poetic soul and gorgeous voice; and best of all, Billy, the oldest, with the charm and looks of the screen idol he’s determined to become. Molly announces she’s going to marry the boy next door but, as her father points out, it’s a question of which one. Just as she’s made up her mind, an invitation to visit Mitzi Alexander, her American godmother in The Hamptons, changes everything. A summer at the Boathouse brings Molly face to face with her mother’s drowning and Mitzi’s hard-headed take on romance will force her to rethink not only her relationship with the Murphy brothers but also her entire future. DOWN BY THE WATER
Hope Collins-Calder has a stressful job as a realtor in The Hamptons, an ex she can’t shake, a current husband she is beginning to regret, and a serious child-care crisis. What she needs is a good traditional British nanny. What she gets is Annabel Quick, elegant, middle-aged but still looking for romance and as far removed from Mary Poppins as she could possibly be. She’s escaping a troubled past in England, she’s lost her driver’s licence, she has no experience of looking after children and yet before the summer is done, Annabel will find the answer to everyone’s prayer – including her own. GRACE AND FAVOR
Grace and Favor are sisters but they’ve never met. Their mother died at Favor’s birth when Grace was five years old and their father, the rogue and charmer Lucas Cammell, abandoned her to be raised by foster parents on a Welsh farm, taking the infant Favor to live with him in London. Although he is never to see Grace again, Lucas leaves her his fortune when he dies. Thirty years later, Grace, sophisticated, wealthy in her own right and a best-selling novelist has moved to The Hamptons, leaving a trail of disastrous love affairs behind her. Favor, a contented London housewife and mother, could not be more different. Both are aware of the other’s existence but their father’s presence has always come between them. Now Favor resolves to track down the sister she has never met, taking the opportunity to accompany her husband on a business trip to New York – little realizing that Grace has in fact been spying on her. They meet as strangers on the wild Atlantic coast where Grace lives. They have absolutely nothing in common other than the blood they share - one reaching out to strengthen family ties, the other determined to sever them – and only two weeks in which to capture thirty years. FALLING FOR MR WRONG
Polly de Soto wakes up one morning to find that her husband Johnny has left her in the middle of the night, creeping out of the house in search of what he thinks will be a more successful high-profile life without her. Johnny is a film producer and Polly is a literary agent who has just started up her own business from an office in their London house. When one of her clients writes a bestseller called MR WRONG and Johnny wants to acquire film rights in the book, he has to buy them from Polly. And in a gesture of consolation, he offers her a vacation to watch the filming in the South of France. But it is here that Polly meets her next Mr Wrong: Hector O’Neill, the star of the movie, who seduces her right in front of Johnny. THE VISITORS’ BOOK
Orlando Manners, heir to the beautiful Cotswolds estate of Laybridge in the English countryside, meets Lindy on a Caribbean beach and takes her home to be his bride. Lindy has won her holiday in a competition in a magazine she read at the hairdresser’s. Lindy is a hard-working middle class girl whose career is all important to her. She is not prepared for her life as Orlando’s wife where she is expected to host weekends for his debauched aristocratic circle of friends at The Cottage, his weekend retreat atLaybridge. Then she is presented with The Visitors’ Book by Orlando’s formidable godmotherVictoria Hissey – a journal begun generations earlier and continued by Orlando’s late mother, Daisy, whose entries reveal a cruelly destructive flirt completely unlike the saint Orlando remembers. But it is The Visitors’ Book that holds the key to the estate’s tragic past – and neither a marriage nor a woman’s heart may survive its revelations. |
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