Secret Meetings

Disgusted with Charles and his cruel tricks, the girls finally agree to band together in the hope of finding another way to win the fortune from him. However, when Thalia runs into trouble at a party and is sent away, it divides the girls even more fiercely than before. Only a chance encounter that reveals a shocking truth about their mother might be able to bring them together.

With a wedding on the cards, the future begins to look bright, despite the sisters doubting they will ever claim their mother's fortune from Charles. But when the girls realise they have overlooked a key person in their quest and a series of terrible events occur, the true owner of the entire fortune is finally revealed and the girls' destinies are changed forever. Having failed at becoming a ballerina with pierced ears (her childhood dream), Allison Rushby instead began a writing career as a journalism student at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Within a few months she slunk sideways into studying Russian, began writing her first novel and, most importantly, joined the Chocolate Appreciation Society. Over the past ten years, she has published five books for young adult readers and five for adult readers in the women's fiction genre. She is originally from Brisbane, Australia, but spent 2011 and most of 2012 living in Cambridge, UK, where she mainly spent her days whingeing constantly about the weather.