Frankie McGowan Books

Rosie has a dilemma.As a single working mother running an interior design business, the juggling act between her ten-year old son Tom and the demands of her career is very hard.Whilst her career looks glamorous from a distance, the clients are difficult and her home office is spiralling out of control.Although she divorced her handsome ex-husband Rory years ago, he remains ever present in her life because of Tom and she is grateful for his help.But Rosie has noticed that there is something different about Rory…He seems more persistent than ever to take another shot at their relationship.Rosie’s friends are horrified that she is even considering it…But there is something different about him when she visits…clean living room, flowers in vases…Can it be that Rory has finally grown up?As Rosie reminisces about the days they had together, she realises that she wants to take a chance on the loving, unreliable Rory once again.Can people really change?Is she making a mistake?Or can Rosie finally shut the door on Unfinished Business and have the best of both worlds?Frankie McGowan is a journalist and former magazine editor. Her novels include ‘Chasing Shadows’, 'A Kept Woman', 'My Mother's Wedding', 'Another Way' and 'A Better Life.'Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.

Anna Minstrel has a good life. Adopted but happy within her loving family, she's got an exciting job ¿ as an editor of a daytime TV show ¿ and a career that's consuming but which leaves room for spin doctor Oliver Manners to woo her. Then her adoptive mother dies, and her father remarries, leaving her isolated from his new, dull family. Into her life comes Sophia, her real mother, who wants Anna to forgive her and come to Rome to meet her real father ¿ now sadly dying. Sophia's family, dizzyingly rich and hopelessly immoral, captivates Anna as they try to make up for all the missing years. Anna feels they too should first forgive her mother, so Anna's new life takes her to Rome and into the family's secrets. She sets out to help Sophia, but with devastating results that change her life and the lives of those she loves.

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