Julie Ellis

Victoria Gunsburg escaped Russia in 1917 and married the heir to an American tobbacco fortune, but his family wouldn't accept her and evidence grew of the dangers of smoking.

A young woman flees from turn-of-the-century Poland and pursues a brilliant stage career in the United States after an unsucessful love affair in London.

BRIDE OF LIES Raised behind the cloistered walls of a Paris convent, seventeen-year-old Suzanne Duprée was hardly prepared to become mistress of a magnificent New Orleans estate, let alone become the wife of virtual stranger. But both had happened. Too late she learned that she'd been taken as a bride to save Keith Savage's land, land that also housed his quadroon mistress! She knew now she had to unshroud the secrecy surrounding her own mysterious heritage. On a brazen quest from the glorious mansions of Savannah to the seamy brothels of New Orleans, she would learn the truth about the past she had to find and the man she dared to desire....

Moving to Tehran with her Iranian husband, Caren finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage and desperately tries to escape to the United States with her son Danny.

The stories of three American women span sixty years of history and takes readers from Fran, who triumphed over tragedy to forge an empire, to Debbie, who fights a twenty-year battle for justice.

Jill Conrad was made an offer she thought she couldn't refuse: a month long stay at an artists' colony in Maine in the company of a charming man she hardly knew but who knew he wanted her. She needed a peaceful break from her hectic life in New York and from her past. Her future seemed bright and hopeful but fear and darkness were about to rear their ugly heads. Jill's carefree attitude gave way to doubts when this strange new man insisted she stay for a month; then those doubts snowballed into full-fledged fear when she heard a simple story. It was the story of a young girl who died there 25 years earlier, a girl Jill had never met but whom she found herself having a little too much in common with. Would Jill end up just like her?

For Susanne, working with famous novelist Nick Merridew was an exciting challenge. But when she met his brother Richard, it was love at first sight. Then, just weeks before their wedding, a car accident left Susanne blinded. Suddenly it was Nick--not Richard--at her hospital bedside, Nick, whose dark brooding presence filled her with confused desire. . . . Now Susanne had more on her mind than just regaining her sight. What was she going to do about Richard, when her heart was telling her it was Nick she loved?

Paul Somers is the popular face of his political party after a surprise victory leads him to congress. His wife Diane was his unseen campaign manager. They both know that next time it will be no easy victory - last time the votes were so close a recount was needed - so Diane is already getting ready to win the next election for her husband. Then rumours start flying that Paul has been seen dining out with the opposition. He arrives home on their tenth wedding anniversary to announce not only is he defecting to the other side, but he is also divorcing her. Diane's whole life is connected to him and she can't imagine how she will cope. And, only concerned with dividing their shared property, Paul doesn't realise what an effect his decision will have on his political future. Diane is stronger opposition than he would ever have imagined and she will fight against him till the bitter end