Barbara Vine

In the spring of 1990, Ivor Tesham - a rising star of the Conservative government has an affair with Hebe Furnal, a stunning housewife stuck in a dull marriage. Tesham decides to give Hebe a birthday present to remember. He arranges for her to be snatched from the street, bound and gagged, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue. X rated, explicit sexual content.

Young care assistant in a nursing home listens to a gracious dignified woman reveal the secrets of her past and finds that her own marital secrets are not dissimilar.

When the novelist Gerald Candless died, his daughter decided to write a memoir, but even his identity appeared to be untrue. Who was he and why had he concealed his real idenitity?

When Lizzie spots her old friend Bell from a London taxi she jumps out and goes after her, despite what has passed between them. The women rekindle their friendship with terrifying results.