Angela Arney
Description
Angela Arney was born in Hampshire, England, where she has lived for most of his life. She went to school in Winchester, but since 2001, she lives in Marchwood, near Southampton. A widowed, she has a son, a daughter, and four grandchildren. Before writing she had a varied career as a caberet singer, a teacher, and then hospital administrator. Angela has been a published writer of successful romantic novels since 1984, has had 16 romantic suspense stories published as well as four larger mainstream novels. She was the nineteenth elected Chairman (1997–1999) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, is a reader for the New Writers Scheme (unpublished writers) and also reads partial manuscripts for a publisher. She is a speaker for various literary events up and down the country. Together with two other local authors, June Tate and Katie Fforde, she runs creative writing courses to tutor others. As well as writing, Angela has interests in amateur theatre both as a performer and director for plays and musicals. She took time out to return to the theatre as a director of amateur companies, but she has now returned to writing novels.
Books
Old Sins, Long Memories
G.P. Lizzie Browne moves from London to a small town on the coast, looking forward to a quiet life, but when she finds a murdered patient on her first day it seems that perhaps Stibbington is not so quiet after all. DCI Adam Maguire, and colleague Steve Grayson, haven’t been challenged by a case for a long time, and welcome this break from their normal routine, except that there seems to be no apparent motive for anyone to kill a harmless young drop-out. When a second body, similar to the first, is found in Lizzie’s garden she is drawn into Adam’s investigation against her will, and against her better judgment her quiet life is riven with tension and conflict.
The Second Wife
"Minty Lloyd struggles to make her life work as Nathan's second wife. Mother to six-year-old twins, sidelined at family gatherings by Nathan's hostile family, ostracized by his friends, she is haunted by the shadow of the glowing, successful Rose - Nathan's first wife. 'The trouble is, ' she concludes, 'everything I do is second-hand.' Yet - such is the curious nature of fate - Minty finds herself united in loss with an unexpected ally - the woman she once betrayed."--Jacket.
Cast The First Stone
The wedding took place in Naples, a city of burning rubble and poverty -- for the time was 1944 and the Germans were in retreat. Thousands of Italians were starving and prepared to do anything to survive. Liana was more determined than most, not only to survive, but to get out of the hell-hole that Naples had become. She had lied, cheated, played provocative games, and now stood in a crumbling church before an emaciated priest. Beside her stood Nicholas Hamilton-Howard, Earl of Wessex, a young English officer who was totally bewitched by the exquisite Italian girl. Even during the service she was terrified -- terrified that someone would reveal the truth about her -- but when the final blessing was given she knew she was safe and vowed to devote her life to making Nicholas happy, even though she did not love him -- even though their life together was to be built on lies and deception.
Leaves Before the Storm
When Megan marries into the Lockwood family of Folly House during the Easter of 1939, she believes that the rumblings of war in Europe cannot touch their lives in the peace of the New Forest. But the winds of war blow, scattering family and friends in all directions, like so many leaves before the storm, and Megan is forced to cope with disappointment in love, illicit passion, and the terrible tragedy of war, only to realize, as life unfolds, that peace and happiness can be found in the strangest places.
Secrets
Maren McClure and Kyle Sterling are enemies in a cutthroat, fast-track industry. He's threatening the company she fought to build; she's endangering his empire. But their instant attraction will raise the stakes from risk...to explosive.
Light Me the Moon
To brilliant businesswoman Diana Stratton, beautiful, blond and ambitious, her career is everything, and provides her with designer dresses, a luxury flat, a fast car and a handsome husband. Then a family tragedy leaves her torn between two worlds.