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Alison Fairmont Villard wakes in a hospital bed with a face she doesn’t recognize and a husband she doesn’t know.  Andrew Villard is a self-made millionaire with a bright future but a shadowy past.  When he tells Alison the details of their life together, she has no choice but to believe him—and to accept the shocking proposal he offers.

It isn’t just the partial amnesia that Alison is suffering.  She has her own secrets, terrifying secrets that can’t be entrusted to anyone, even Andrew.  The police suspect Andrew had something to do with Alison’s near fatal accident aboard his yacht and were ready to charge him with the crime before he found his wife’s body, battered on the razor-sharp coral reefs.

When the veil of amnesia lifts, it’s too late.  Alison is caught in a web of her own making.  She can’t escape.  And now, an FBI agent with a personal vendetta is about to blow the lid off her deadly marriage of convenience.

THE ARRANGEMENT
(Mira, May 2007)

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It's not always the one on top who has the power... 

Tess Wakefield has cooled on sex. Oh, she did the rebellious wild child thing in college, making it a point to break all the rules--especially the ones about sex--and all it got her was a string of loser boyfriends and a fear of rashes. Underwhelmed by her experiences, she’s happy to focus on her career and leave her vibrator in storage.

Now an advertising exec, Tess has been hired by one of Madison Avenue’s hottest agencies as co-creative director with wunderkind Danny Gabriel. Secretly, she’s been asked to rein in his maverick style, and Tess immediately suspects Danny when someone sabotages her new campaign. But everyone in the place seems to have a secret agenda. It’s a cutthroat business, and not everyone is willing to play nice with the new girl.

Including Danny. His early advances are a pleasant shock to Tess, but she never imagines for a second that she’d allow him to draw her into the dark heart of the most breathtakingly erotic S&M club in Manhattan--or that she’d be so willing to give up control and like it. 

TEASE (Spice, May 2006)

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At an exclusive California prep school, four young girls form a bond that will endure over two decades -- a bond built on secrets, scandal and a murder ... a bond about to be broken.

Mattie, a federal judge ... Breeze, a wealthy entrepreneur ... and Jane, the first lady of the United States, have all enjoyed a meteoric rise to success since their days at the Rowe Academy for Girls. But now the truth behind the suicide of their friend Ivy and the murder of their headmistress twenty years ago is no longer safely hidden. 

The man imprisoned for the murder has been exonerated, and a true crime reporter is relentlessly pursuing a loose thread in the decades-old cover-up, one that threatens to unravel the women's pact of silence. But none of them anticipated the twisted depths of the secrets about to be exposed -- or how the truth could shatter all of their lives.

August 2005!

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