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A compelling story of old loves and old secrets.Sebastian, the fifty-six-year-old patriarch of the Locke clan, is handsome, charismatic, a man of immense charm and intelligence. He heads up the philanthropic Locke Foundation, and travels the globe, personally giving away millions a year to the poor, the sick, and the victims of natural disasters and wars. And now, he is dead – murdered in mysterious circumstances that have the police at a loss. Who would want to kill the world’s greatest philanthropist? Could such an upstanding man have enemies?Vivienne Trent, a glamorous American journalist, met Locke as a child, married him, divorced him, but stayed close to him. Aware that there was another side to this enigmatic man, she sets out to find the truth about his death – and about Locke himself.

An Indecent PropositionZander Kargas assumes he can acquire secretary Charlotte by reaching for his wallet – except she can’t be bought and is the only woman to fire his blood! So Zander must entice her… beginning with a very indecent proposition!Beholden to the Throne Outspoken nanny Amy Bannester forgets that servitude and silence should go hand in hand and Sheikh Emir can think of other pleasurable uses for her luscious mouth… But not as his bride! He needs a male heir – and Amy can’t give him one…Hers for One Night Only? After a traumatic day, paediatrician Dominic Mansfield arrives at a party craving escape. Vulnerable isn’t his usual type, but Bridgette intrigues him. Dominic’s flings, no matter how hot, are one night only, yet the next day he’s knocking on her door!

The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.‘As for these stories – when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there. Time has nothing to do with it. A certain kind of pulse starts beating, and I recognise it: it is time I wrote another story from that landscape, external and internal at the same time, which was once the Old Chief’s Country.’ Doris Lessing, from the PrefaceThis much-acclaimed collection of stories vividly evokes both the grandeur of Africa and the glare of its sun and the wide open space, as well as the great, irresolvable tensions between whites and blacks. Tales of poor white farmers and their lonely wives, of storm air thick with locusts, of ants and pomegranate trees, black servants and the year of hunger in a native village – all combine to present a powerful image of a continent which seems incorruptible in spite of all the people who plough, mine and plunder it to make their living. In Doris Lessing’s own words, ‘Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.’