Corrie van den Berg Books

Beautiful, happily married, and the owner of a successful interior design business, Casey Marshall couldn't be more content with her life. Until a car slams into her at fifty miles an hour, breaking nearly every bone in her body - and plunging her into a coma. Lying in her hospital bed, Casey realizes that, although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. As the visitor gather at her bedside, she is horrified to discover that her friends aren't necessarily the people she thought them to be - and that her accident might not have been an accident at all. As she struggles to break free from her living death, Casey determines to find out and somehow expose the truth. Whatever it takes.

Baby Frankie is born into an unusual family. Her mother is desperate to find someone to take care of her child and she doesn't have much time. Noel doesn't seem to be the most promising of fathers but despite everything, he could well be Frankie's best hope. As for Lisa, she is prepared to give up everything for the man she loves; surely he's going to love her back? And Moira is having none of it. She knows what's right, and has the power to change the course of Frankie's life...but Moira is hiding secrets of her own. MINDING FRANKIE is a story about unconventional families, relationships which aren't quite what they seem and the child at the heart of everyone's lives...

Tegen haar zin werkt de jonge Iraakse Lina Alwin als computeranaliste bij Coyote Investment, een in Londen gevestigd Iraaks bedrijf. Het gerucht gaat dat het bedrijf als dekmantel dient voor financiêle manipulaties. Privé-detective Sam Hoffman stelt daarom een diepgaand onderzoek in. En hoewel Hoffman iemand is voor wie weining zaken geheim blijven, loopt hij nu tegen een muur van zwijgen op. De Irakezen die er werken zijn te bang om te praten, wetende dat dit dodelijke gevolgen kan hebben voor henzelf en hun familie in Irak. De enige die met Hoffman wil praten is Lina Alwin. Hoffman's interesse voor Lina blijft niet onopgemerkt. Als Lina dan ook nog uiterst gevoelige financiële informatie ontdekt, lijken haar dagen geteld. Lina wordt gedwongen onder te duiken. Maar samen met Sam Hoffman ontwikkelt Lina een briljant plan om de machthebbers in haar vaderland te breken...