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Three Brides, three grooms – and they all meet at THE WEDDING OF THE YEARAnnie and Chase Cooper were reunited, reluctantly, for their daughter Dawn's wedding. But when Dawn got cold feet about her honeymoon, Chase had an idea. It was important that his daughter and her new husband should start life together believing love never dies, so why didn't he and Annie pretend they were reconciled?Just for a while… Enjoy the rekindled passion that sizzles between Annie and Chase. Is this to be the reconciliation of the year?Find out – in this, the second story in Sandra Marton's enthralling trilogy!

In her second volume of short stories, which follows the hugely successful 'Encounters', Barbara Erskine has created a compelling world of love, betrayal, suspense and grief.A biographer investigating a tragic death hears voices from the past drawing her towards the truth…A nineteenth century parson’s daughter is caught up in the excitement and romance of a smuggling intrigue…A young boy from a deprived background finds his own haven in the wastelands of the inner city…Contemporary, historical, spooky, and humorous – there are over thirty delightful stories, each one guaranteed to capture the reader’s imagination, and all demonstrating Barbara Erskine’s unique powers as a storyteller.

A classic Cold War spy story from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert.The Red House follows a year in the life of Russian diplomat Vladimir Zhukov, the new Second Secretary at the Soviet Embassy in Washington – a ‘good Communist’ in 1960s America.Seeing what life in the West is really like, he discovers there is more to America than what Soviet propaganda has taught him. Increasingly intrigued by the Washington circuit, from outspoken confrontation between diplomats to the uninhibited sexual alliances arranged by their wives with other diplomats, the capitalist ‘poison’ begins to work on him and his wife.As he struggles to remain loyal to his country and begins to question who is the real enemy, he has to decide to whom is first loyalty due: country or lover, party or conscience.‘A gripping and topical novel’ Reading Chronicle