Charlotte Lamb Books

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition with this ISBN here. Was the past ever dead and buried? Caroline left her alcoholic husband, Peter, in an act of desperation--to save herself and their little daughter from harm. Their three-year security was shattered when Nick Holt, Peter's cousin, turned up on her doorstep--to tell her that Peter was dead and to bring them home to Peter's mother. But hardest of all to bear was Nick's contempt for her. There was no way now of counteracting the lies that Peter had told him about her--and Caroline found herself wanting Nick's good opinion.

Why had Drew shown up in Paris now? Helen had managed to avoid Drew for the past six years, ensuring that if he was in one country she'd be in another. After all, theirs wasn't a real marriage anyway—Drew had wanted the business connection with her father and Helen had merely wanted to escape her parents. It was a bizarre but comfortable arrangement. But now Drew meant to claim his rights as her husband, and she had nowhere to turn. His sudden demands were frightening and confusing—as were her own surprising responses....

Battle For Possession by Charlotte Lamb released on Sep 24, 1992 is available now for purchase.

Sara had run away from Alex Stevenson's demands of unquestioning love, but her amnesia made her forget her year away from him... Until she saw the woman who had caused the break up of their marriage. Then shatteringly, everything fell back into place and she saw the caring and protestations of love were all part of the plan to make her stop their divorce. Her parents were in on that too constantly trying to bring them together. All of them treated her like a child - they didn't seem to realise that the pain and hurt of the past year had made her grow up into a confident woman, sure of what she wanted...but was she so sure of not wanting Alex?

When Claudia and Ben first meet on the banks of the Seine, the sexual frisson between them is powerful, instantaneous - and mutual. But Claudia quickly begins to suspect that Ben is less interested in her than in her honorary godfather Hugh, the enigmatic Englishman who had been her father's best friend. Then Claudia's apartment is ransacked, and she herself threatened by a pair of sinister thugs. As she flees in terror to Hugh's exquisite villa on the beautiful Cap d'Antibes, Claudia is followed by Ben - and one of her attackers. The solution to the puzzle lies in the dark days of World War Two, when Edward, exiled in the South of France, with Wallis Simpson, plots deadly treason against his native land. As Claudia struggles to understand the complexities of the past, she must also grapple with her own turbulent lover or deadly enemy, Ben has caught tight hold of her heart.

Annie Lang, star of the TV police drama The Force, is a character known to millions. Men want to protect her; women want to be her friend. But the actress with the innocent face harbours her own terrible secret. Two very different men dominated Annie's past and both of them vanished eight years ago. Since that fateful night, ambition has driven Annie to the top. Now at the peak of her success, she has everything she has ever wanted except love. And then one day love begins to stalk her . . . How is this connected to what happened eight years ago? What else does Annie's perfect façade hide? And, after all this time, will love bring about Annie's end?

Vicky didn't want to take Ricco seriouslyAfter all, she'd come to Florence to hide out. Bitter from the discovery that her fiance, however famous, was a first-class heel, she wasn't ready for another relationship.Besides, Ricco always seemed to have the glamorous Bianca in tow. His claim that it was only business, that she was one of his top recording artists, didn't dispel Vicky's doubts.Surely she couldn't be jealous? It just wasn't the right time or place for her to fall in love! Even if Ricco was the right man...

For years Helen's marriage to Paul Eastwood had been a disaster and a mockery. Paul was weak, selfish, and blatantly unfaithful to her. But she was still his wife and some sense of duty, some undercurrent of feeling that perhaps she was to blame in some way, made her stay with him. Paul, she felt, was a spoiled child at heart and depended on her as he did on no one else; without her he might well be finished. But now Mark Eliot had come into her life, and Helen soon had to admit that the passionate love she felt for him bore no relation to the duty and pity that was all that was left of her feeling for her husband. What would happen to her sense of duty now?

Suzy's affair with the dynamic Liam Moor had been tangled from the start and perhaps it was not suprising that it had ended in tragedy. She hadn't seen him since and didn't want to meet him again, so it was unfortunate that they were thrown together when Suzy's film director boss decided to film Liam's book. What hurt most, though, was that the unpleasant, scheming female character in the story was based on Suzy herself - a warped, bitter impression of her. How could she work with Liam under those circumstances? And would he ever believe that he was wrong about her?