Ugly Truths

Ancient History

Athena Duncan is living a life as a cosseted academic with her parents in Oxford when tragedy strikes in mysterious circumstances. In an effort to assuage her grief she travels to Paris where she meets the enigmatic playboy Patrice Moreau who is determined to show her what she has been missing in life. Meanwhile hovering in the background is the equally distracting Dr. Jack Latimer, professor of archeology from Harvard.

Both men seek to win her, but do they have an ulterior motive? A mystery involving her father’s integrity and a missing Egyptian artifact causes Athena to question everything she once believed as true.

Playing the Long Game

Ellie Morehead spends her formative years with a giant chip on her shoulder and a burning desire to join the Cavendish family at the top of the food chain. When passion comes knocking in the summer she turns eighteen she thinks all her dreams are about to come true.

Christmas with Hamish 

Christmas has never been the most wonderful time of the year for Verity Robinson. When her younger sister sends her an invite to her Christmas wedding on the other side of the country in Vancouver, she decides to kill two birds with one stone and plans a ski trip to Whistler with some old friends. However, her dreams of a snowy Christmas on skis are thwarted by her sister’s dog sitting crisis.

Instead of spending Christmas enjoying the après ski alcohol, she is instead stuck minding Hamish McDuff for the next week. They say that every cloud has a silver lining and for Verity the silver lining comes in the guise of her sexy new neighbour, Nikau Taylor. Nikau seems determined to help Verity eradicate her ghosts of Christmas past, but what will happen when her time is up and it’s time to go home to Toronto?

Safety in Numbers

After experiencing a traumatic accident, mathematician Seraphina Ellis tries to hide away, resigning herself to a lonely, unfulfilling life. Determined to conceal her disability from her co-workers, she conceals herself in her desolate cubicle, crossing off the days of her life, discontented and defeated.

A chance meeting with irascible but mesmerizing billionaire scientist and CEO Milo Grant provides her with the job of her dreams, and the chance of escape from cubicle land. But Grant is haunted by his own monsters and is increasingly interested in more than just her mathematical magic.

In this touching and sexually charged contemporary romance, Sophie Penhaligon manages to deliver a novel that is lighthearted and fun whilst dealing with the difficult topics of loss and disability.

Ugly Truths

He has no idea who she is, and she’s determined to keep it that way.

Ex-model and current business troubleshooter Kate McKenzie has been enlisted to help out a physical therapist whose business is failing. There’s just one problem. The business is located in her old hometown of Angel Peaks, and the man in question is her childhood arch-nemesis who she’d rather see die a painful and messy death.

Sam Garrett is a pillar of the local community in the small town of Angel Peaks. He volunteers, he supports, he goes out of his way to be seen as an all-round good guy. However, hiding behind this golden veneer is a past he just can’t seem to let go of. There’s only one person who can help him redeem himself, but she left the town thirteen years ago.

Will Kate find enough forgiveness in her heart to give Sam the closure he so desperately needs?

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