Now, from the author of Destiny, comes a novel certain to be as talked about, as richly romantic and wicked, as that number one New York Times bestseller. Lovers and Liars is Sally Beauman's sensuous, very contemporary story of public masks and secret lives, of a "perfect" marriage that is not what it seems, and of lovers long separated yet destined to meet, tumultuously, again. On a frosty January morning soon after the New Year's revels, an exquisitely dressed, beautiful blonde woman sends four identical parcels to four different Paris, New York, Venice and London. But the lovely messenger is not who she claims to be. Photographer Pascal Lamartine receives his package in it is a woman's black glove, silky, scented, and disturbing. In London, reporter Gini Hunter, daughter of a famous Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, opens her parcel to find even more threatening contents. And within hours, Gini's enterprising editor assigns both her and Pascal to expose the story of a lifetime; a story so rich, so ripe with potential scandal, that it could make headlines—and ruin lives. For Gini and Pascal must penetrate the perfect facade of John Hawthorne, the charming, charismatic U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, to sift through the layers of ever-shifting truth about his life. The wealthy scion of a famous American family—in short, perfect presidential material—John Hawthorne appears to have thrown away a promising political career to take a diplomatic post. Why? His wife, Lise, a legendary beauty, is a master at seducing the media; her delicate features are a constant presence on the society pages for her charity work, her skills as a hostess, and her unrelenting chic. Yet the exhaustive, adoring coverage has left the real woman mysteriously opaque. And now, unbelievably, she seems to be the source of certain whisperings about her husband. But beyond the sensational story they are about to unmask—a black-widow web of deceit, betrayal, and dark desires more complex and perilous than they could have imagined—Gini and Pascal must confront themselves, their past, and their brief, passionate love affair twelve years before, when the fascination between them reached a fever pitch only to end explosively. Even as their investigation plunges them dangerously into the hypocrisies of the privileged and powerful, where each surprising revelation is replaced by a new, even more shocking contradiction, past merges with present, taking the two lovers back to the hot, bare room at the edge of danger where, for one burning moment, the world made perfect sense, took perfect shape. Deftly woven of erotic secrets and unfolding deceptions that stretch across more than two decades, Lovers and Liars is a romantic and spellbindingly suspenseful journey into the mysteries of the heart, where love can sustain the soul—or twist it cruelly. "First-rate suspense." —Cosmopolitan

"Danger Zones is compulsively readable and utterly engrossing—one of those books which hooks you from page one until you reluctantly surrender it in the small hours of Saturday morning." —The Times (London) The danger zones—where sex, secrets, and sin collide—are the places that New York Times bestselling author Sally Beauman knows best . . . and explores with gripping, brilliant intensity in her new novel. In the picture-perfect English Cotswolds, two teenage girls dressed in punk finery attend a wild midnight party. Music, drugs, and dancing are promised by the enigmatic young man known only as Star. Charismatic and cunning, a conjurer who procures heaven for a price, Star sells seduction for a living. Now he's got a pill—a White Dove—that delivers the ultimate high. And he has a plan. By dawn, one girl will be dead, the other will have vanished—swept by Star into the danger zone. At the heart of that perilous place stands the gifted and reclusive Maria Cazarès, a couturier of originality and passion, a woman who shuns her own fame, a legend shrouded in mystery. Around her swirls rumor and counterrumor, whispers of shocking secrets and taboos broken. Fiercely shielded from celebrity's glare by Jean Lazare, her iron-willed partner—some say lover—Cazarès is surrounded only by a carefully selected few. And the most dangerous among them is Star. Now, as the glitterati assemble in Paris for the new collections, a fatal triangle established three decades before in sultry New Orleans is about to fulfill its tragic destiny. Two journalists, firebrand editor Rowland McGuire and investigative reporter Gini Hunter, pick up the heady scent of an unfolding scandal. And as they clash over how to cover it, their hostility ignites a sudden desperate flame of desire—a desire that, if quenched, will tilt their universe. Against the pounding beat and dazzling colors on the runway as the world waits breathless for the new Cazarès collection, the search for a missing innocent will reach its pulsingly suspenseful climax. At last, blood red truths will be revealed . . . as the author of Destiny sweeps us into the Danger Zones, where no heart is safe.

Journalist Lindsay Drummond is about to re-make her she plans to move out of London, change her job, and above all cure herself of her hopeless love for her unfairly handsome colleague, Rowland McGuire. Deadline day is Hallowe'en - but an encounter then with Rowland's friend, Colin Lascelles, a man much less innocent than he seems, quickly teaches hear that the best-laid plans can go delightfully awry... In New York, actress Natasha Lawrence is also trying to rebuild her life. Pursued by a stalker for the past five years, still to her ex-husband, the celebrated film director Thomas Court, she retreats with her son to the precincts of the exclusive - and haunted - Conrad apartment building. But will it provide her the security she so desperately seeks, and will she and her husband be albe to lay to rest the ghosts of their past? Lindsay's and Natasha's lives become inextricably entangled; when the cast of characters gathers for Thanksgiving at the sinister Conrad building, anything can happen, for romance and retribution, marrige and murder are in the air.

In Sally Beauman's seductive new novel of love, sexual obsession, and complex relationships . . . Journalist Lindsay Drummond vows to remake change jobs, move away from London, and—above all—extinguish the hopeless love she feels for the handsome, charismatic Rowland McGuire. But a chance encounter with an enigmatic stranger dashes her well-laid plans. Two women become inextricably tangled with passion and peril, marriage and darkening menace... In New York, actress Natasha Lawrence also desperately needs a change. Still tied to her ex-husband, a brilliant film director, and pursued by a dangerous and frightening stalker, Natasha retreats with her son to the lush confines of her apartment in one of Manhattan's most exclusive landmark buildings. But she is far from safe, as an obsessed shadowy figure plays a heart-thumping game of cat-and-mouse. And when the life of her beloved child is threatened, Natasha will feel the cold sting of true terror. They will be transformed forever by the forces of DECEPTION AND DESIRE