Lee Staffordová je autorkou, pre ktorú je písanie vrodenou vášňou. Jej diela sa vyznačujú prenikavým pohľadom na ľudskú skúsenosť a citlivým vykreslením postáv. Staffordová skúma komplexné vzťahy a vnútorné svety svojich hrdinov s jazykovou precíznosťou a empatickým porozumením. Jej štýl je zároveň vytriezvený a prístupný, čo čitateľom umožňuje hlboké prepojenie s príbehmi.
Frankie si vždycky zakládala na tom, že je redaktorka, která dokáže vyjít s každým autorem - ale spolupracovat s Julianem Tarrantem je téměř nad její síly. Proč zrovna on, zatrpklý samotář nenávidějící ženy, v ní vzbuzuje takovou touhu...?
Linda je přesvědčená, že italský boháč Max di Angeli zničil život její přítelkyně a své manželky Joanny. Je odhodlaná vypátrat co se v benátské domácnosti odehrálo. Ale Max je nebezpečný protivník...
Marry in haste...They'd had a whirlwind courtship. Alain Deslandes was a worldly academic, while Roxanne wasn't much more than an inexperienced girl. As Alain's wife, she hadn't been prepared for the nights she'd had to spend alone, nor for the baby she'd happily discovered she was expecting. And she definitely hadn't been prepared to see Alain with another woman.Five years later, Roxanne was capable and independent. And she'd managed to put the memories of her brief, painful marriage behind her. So she returned to the south of France knowing that Alain had made a life for himself elsewhere--or had he?
Shipped out to the jungles and volcanoes of Java by her strait-laced Dutch relations, rebellious Anneke van de Velde finds a kindred spirit in Harvey Brand, artist, libertine and social outcast. And when she is pressured into betrothal to an austere missionary it is to Harvey Brand, reputation or no, that Anneke must flee - even though she knows that he loves one woman, has been married to another, and has nothing left in his heart for her...
