Friends and Lovers (Denison)

A life-threatening incident had changed Mac Donovan's life. Now restricted to desk duties she was focusing on recovery and returning to her old job. She also knew she had to make the break from a dangerous secret relationship. On the positive side she was seeing more of her friends and realising how much she'd missed them. Her best friend, Dee, didn't want Mac to move on alone and informed Mac she knew someone who would be just right for her. Mac wanted no such complications. Then she met the delightful Liv Murray and Mac conceded Dee might be right. But Liv Murray had her own secrets, her own personal dilemma. Could they help each other and find what they were both seeking? However, taking a step forward meant Mac had to sort out the mess behind her. Was she up to that?

There's a stranger in town. Carolyn Winter is cool, in control and content with her single life. She's certainly not looking for a relationship. Been there, done that, not pleasant. She has all she needs at the moment. A new job and a new home. And when someone, an attractive someone, is catapulted into her life, and keeps reappearing, she tells herself nothing can happen. It's far too complicated. Isn't it? A prodigal sister returns. Tess Wainwright has never been in love. She knows she's run away from everything. The only worthy thing she's done is raise Bronte and the nine-year-old deserves more than life has dealt her. Now it's time for Tess to finish getting her life in order, find some normality, reunite with her older sister, and hopefully make a better life for herself and Bronte. Of course the universe has never been Tess's friend and it looks like it's running true to form. Her sister, an army nurse, is deployed to Afghanistan, but she assures Tess her friends will help her settle back into life in her home town. Liv, Mac and Dee are doing just that and Tess starts to think, universe aside, for once she's made the right decision. Then that same universe has a change of heart, quite literally, and sets two lonely women on a collision course.

Clancy Deveril's life was not messy. She never allowed it to be. She simply moved on. It was what she did and it always worked. So why wasn't she doing that now? Perhaps because this time it wasn't just about her. It involved her family, particularly her much younger sister. And, as Clancy saw it, she knew where to lay the blame. The entitled Hunter family. Specifically, Abigail Hunter. So with revenge in mind Clancy drew closer to Abigail Hunter's flame. But too late, she realised she could get badly burned. Abby Hunter had her life in order. After her divorce she returned home and made a satisfying life with her young daughter. She had a high-profile job, was happily single, and hadn't had the time, or the inclination, to change that status. Quite frankly, romance had never been on her agenda. So how could a chance meeting suddenly jolt her ordered, well-balanced life completely off its comfortable centre? She knew she had to get herself back onto firm ground. But was she sure that was what she wanted?

Gian Crane, youngest of six, the family underachiever, started out with reasonable goals, but now, at thirty-two, the sum of her life is an uninspiring job and one major broken heart. If it wasn't for her best friend, Maddie, she'd have no joy in her life. Then a management shuffle elevates Gian to the new boss's Personal Assistant, a boss who is reserved, icily attractive, and older. Just Gian's type. No, Gian will not complicate her life by foolishly allowing herself to be wildly attracted to her new boss. That can't go anywhere, can it? Flynn Fox finds her fortieth birthday looming and what does she have to show for it? A failed marriage. A son who doesn't seem to care if she's part of his life or not. And she's still allowing family pressures to leech the colour from her life, while her supposed 'unnatural tendencies' have seen her moved out of the limelight in the family company. She's under no illusions about why her father suddenly wants her to take charge of the struggling Kingstone branch of Fox and Sons. If it fails it won't be on him. Is this her chance to show her worth, even if it means going against her father's instructions? Into Flynn's life steps Gian and attraction flares. But Gian is younger, and unlike any of the women Flynn is usually attracted to, and she's Gian's boss. If she acted on this attraction it would be totally inappropriate. Wouldn't it? Revisit the location of the FRIENDS AND LOVERS series. This is book 4 and is a stand-alone.

What if you wanted to change your old life before it changed you? She desperately needed to escape, and it was all going to plan until that fiery accident. Waking in hospital to the sound of a soothing voice gave her a glimpse of a future shed craved, but could she wish her past away by pretending to have no memories of it? Lou Baxters divorce had been amicable, she loved her job, her daughters, and even her wonderful, irritating mother. Then an injured young woman with beautiful dark eyes called her her guardian angel, and her life became so much more complicated. The standalone fifth book in the Friends and Lovers series.