Böcker av Mercedes Kelly

When London journalist Laura inherits her grandmother's cottage in a rural Cornish fishing village, her eccentric neighbours waste no time in getting her to join their bizarre games. Everyone knows their neighbours' business, and when Laura strikes up an affair with a rugged young fisherman, you can be sure that the whole village will soon know her most intimate secrets. But there's a mystery hanging over her, and this is one secret the locals are keeping to themselves. Laura in on a quest to find out who her real father was. She wants to know the truth before she gets too involved with someone she shouldn't!

Janet McKinnon has been incarcerated in the Sultan's harem for two years. Rosemary McKinnon has recently joined her. Both women were married to a handsome but dissolute Scottish missionary based in Kenya, whose sexual tastes ran contradictory to his religious calling.Mathilde Valentine is settling into life as a medic in McKinnon's East African mission post. It's a place of mystery and danger and is warned by the rugged game warden - Olensky - to be wary of her new employer. Ignoring his advice, Mathilde is soon sent to the harem, where she has to deal with the demanding Sultan, his sadistic brother and the Sultan's spoilt and sexually rampant son. Meanwhile Olensky - her 'lion lover' - is plotting to bring about her escape. But by the time he makes it to the harem, will she even want to be rescued.