The Betrayal (44 page)

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'A page-turner…has all the ingredients of a bestseller.'
RTE

When 15-year-old
Cathy Lambert
runs away from her Dublin home, she is scared and pregnant.
Settled in New Zealand with her new son Conor she believes the secret she carries will never be revealed…

Rebecca Lambert
was eighteen when her parents died and she took responsibility for her younger sisters.
Years later, she is haunted by fears she hoped she'd conquered.

Freed from family duties, mother of three
Julie Chambers
is determined to recapture the dreams of her youth.

Married to a possessive older man,
Lauren Moran
embarks on a frantic love affair that threatens to destabilise her fragile world.

Anxious to make peace with her three sisters, Cathy invites them to her wedding.

But as the women journey together through New Zealand towards their reunion, they are forced to confront the past as the secret shared histories of the Lambert sisters are revealed.

THE PRODIGAL SISTER is out now

‘A gripping, multi-stranded novel… An unusual combination of
fine writing, strong plotting and a huge cast of well-formed characters.
’
Irish Examiner

'A
well-crafted and compelling story
traces the deceits which begin unnoticed but end in the destruction of friendships and lives.'
Irish Times

If you loved DAUGHTER by Jane Shemilt you will love this.

It's every mother's worst nightmare.
Carla Kelly wakes to find her two-day-old baby daughter's cot empty.
Isobel has been taken.

Susanne Dowling has kept a terrible secret following her fifth agonising miscarriage.
When at last she welcomes her new baby daughter into her life she realises they will both be safe as long as Susanne keeps her daughter close, and confesses her lie to no one.
Ever.

Carla, a top model, launches a fierce national campaign to find her baby – but the trail is cold.
She receives threats and recriminations from strangers – she flaunted her pregnancy in the media, she cashed in on it, she deserves everything she gets – and, pressured by well-meaning loved ones to move on, she begins to fall apart.

But one letter Carla receives stands out from the rest, offering support from a surprising quarter.
It sparks a chain of events that opens wounds and exposes shocking secrets from Carla’s past that suggest what happened to her daughter was revenge a long time planned .

And it will bring Carla unknowingly close to the stolen daughter she has sworn she will do anything to get back …

THE STOLEN CHILD is out now

‘
A bittersweet tale of love and heartache.
’
Evening Echo

‘
An entertaining and highly thought-provoking tearjerker.
’
Closer
magazine

His name is Michael Carmody.

He is a writer and a father.

His son is lying in a coma, fighting for his life.

Her name is Lorraine Cheevers.

She is an artist and mother.

An illicit affair has destroyed her marriage.

Michael is desperate to find the couple who left his son for dead, a victim of a hit and run.

Lorraine is desperate to start a new life for her and her daughter.

Michael and Lorraine are about to cross paths – damaged souls, drawn to one another.

They don’t know that their lives are already connected.

They don’t know the web of lies surrounding them.

They are each searching for the truth.
But when they find it, it could destroy them both.

FRAGILE LIES is out now

‘Dealing with passion, adultery, deception and tragedy, and how the past has a way of creeping up on you…a really
intriguing page-turner with a surprising twist
.’
Evening Echo

‘This page-turner is gripping, all the more because it presents the dilemmas of betrayal with
brutal honesty
.’
Irish Independent

‘This
well-crafted and compelling story
traces the deceits which begin unnoticed but end in the destruction of friendships and lives.’
The Irish Times