A Season of Secrets (70 page)

Meanwhile Zac, the wonderfully talented and handsome new signing at the local boxing club, is being eyed hopefully by all the young women of Magnolia Square. But he has eyes for only one –
Carrie Collins, who has teenage children of her own and whose husband, Danny, seems more interested in the boxing club and his market stall than in her.

In the weeks leading up to the coronation, Magnolia Square is once again the centre of conflict and drama.

Margaret Pemberton is the bestselling author of over thirty novels in many different genres, some of which are contemporary in setting and some historical.

She has served as Chairman of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and has three times served as a committee member of the Crime Writers’ Association. Born in Bradford, she is married
to a Londoner, has five children and two dogs and lives in Whitstable, Kent. Apart from writing, her passions are tango, travel, English history and the English countryside.

Also by Margaret Pemberton

Rendezvous with Danger

The Mystery of Saligo Bay

Vengeance in the Sun

The Guilty Secret

Tapestry of Fear

African Enchantment

Flight to Verechenko

A Many-Splendoured Thing

Moonflower Madness

Forget-Me-Not Bride

Party in Peking

Devil’s Palace

Lion of Languedoc

Yorkshire Rose

The Flower Garden

Silver Shadows, Golden Dreams

Never Leave Me

A Multitude of Sins

White Christmas in Saigon

An Embarrassment of Riches

Zadruga

The Four of Us

The Londoners

Magnolia Square

Coronation Summer

Mega thanks are due to my publisher, Wayne Brookes, and to my editor, Catherine Richards, both of whom have been tremendously supportive and encouraging. Thanks are also due to
the rest of the formidable Pan Macmillan team and I particularly want to thank copy-editor Mandy Greenfield and editorial manager Ali Blackburn. At Curtis Brown my agent, Sheila Crowley, has been
as indefatigable – and as much fun – as always, and also to be thanked are Rebecca Ritchie and Katie McGowan. Thanks are due to many friends, not least Oliver Smith, for help with
German.

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