Book description
Cassia Fallon has been married to her doctor husband for seven years
when her godmother leaves her a fortune. She is determined to be
sensible, to stay in control. Suddenly, for the first time in her life,
she is able to do exactly as she likes.
She starts to question her marriage, her past, her present and future.
The money gives her confidence, and her husband Edward can only look on
resentfully as she resumes her medical career, sheds some of her
domestic burdens, and re-forms old relationships - one of them of a most
dangerous kind.
But where did her legacy really come from. and why? Too soon the
windfall has become a corrupting force. One that Cassia cannot resist...
Penny Vincenzi is one of the UK's best-loved and most popular authors.
Since her first novel, Old Sins, was published in 1989, she has written
fourteen bestselling novels, most recently The Best of Times and the
number one bestseller An Absolute Scandal.
Her first 'proper' job was at the Harrods Library, aged sixteen, after
which she went to secretarial college. She joined the Mirror and later
became a journalist, writing for The Times, the Daily Mail and
Cosmopolitan amongst many others, before turning to fiction. Several
years later, over seven million copies of Penny's books have been sold
worldwide and she is universally held to be the 'doyenne of the modern
blockbuster' (Glamour).
Penny Vincenzi has four daughters, and divides her time between London
and Gower, South Wales.
