Denica Fairman
Author
Publisher
W.F. Howes
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When her ten-year marriage to Alistair ends with his infidelity, Kate Easton vows she will not make the same mistake twice. She will never put herself - or her two children - through a relationship again. Then Alistair announces that his new wife is pregnant and he intends to cut his financial support to Kate. To keep her home she must divide it up and make way for a lodger. Enter Davis Calder, a glamorous and charismatic tutor with a failed marriage...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Five stories about discovery -- a perfume that attracts men, a book that shows people's thoughts, a remarkable change in a widow's life, the secret of high intelligence, and a way of making time stand still -- make up this entertaining collection.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The complete revamping of Catherine Coulter's 1983 Signet Regency, An Intimate Deception, led to this: a full-bodied historical romance with a new beginning and a new ending.
The Duke of Portsmouth offers an impecunious half-French relative a job as his young son's nanny. What he quickly discovers is that he wants her, badly. What he discovers far more slowly is that she isn't at all what she seems.
The Duke of Portsmouth offers an impecunious half-French relative a job as his young son's nanny. What he quickly discovers is that he wants her, badly. What he discovers far more slowly is that she isn't at all what she seems.
Author
Publisher
Harper Element
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family. When 14 -year-old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what? Placed in the home of experienced foster carer Cathy and her family, Zeena gradually settles into her new life, but misses her little brothers and sisters terribly. Prevented from having any contact...
Author
Publisher
HarperElement
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Cathy sees Laura in the school playground she joins the other parents in admiring her gorgeous newborn baby, Liam, but when Laura suddenly feels unwell Cathy is so concerned she walks her home. Laura then disappears for weeks. Her seven-year-old daughter Kim is collected from school by Laura's mother-in-law, who wants nothing to do with anyone outside the family. Busy fostering, Cathy tries to put her worries to one side, until late one night...
Author
Publisher
Harper Element
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her school repeatedly reported concerns about her bruises. And her five older half-siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she was left at home to suffer for so long. It seems Aimee was the forgotten child.
Author
Publisher
HarperElement
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The author had fostered fifty children over twenty years but none of them had been as disturbed as Jodie, a troubled eight-year-old whose violence and aggression had seen off five foster carers in just four months. When Jodie arrived, the author had no idea what lay beneath Jodie's shocking behaviour, which included smearing feces all over the house, erupting into violent rages and even cutting herself. Little by little, as Jodie's rage was met with...