Twenty-four hours later, Diane and the rest of the victim’s family disappears into thin air. The photo on the driving license bears little resemblance to the man laid out before her, and she knows she’s up against the most twisted killer she has ever encountered.īut as she breaks the devastating news to the victim’s wife, Diane Phipps, Kim can’t help feeling that something isn’t quite right about the woman’s reaction. When Detective Kim Stone is called to a local business, what she sees leaves her speechless. There was no turning back now, her life as she knew it was gone. He throws her phone to the ground, grinds it against the floor with the heel of his shoe and brings his face closer to hers. Her stomach lurches as she sits in the windowless room. It’s just three best friends having a laugh and throwing some herbs around the garden. So, when one summer evening, over several glasses of wine, Cher, Sarah and Deb stumble across an old book and decide to cast a wishing spell, they don’t think for one minute that it will come true. If only her fiancé could see it that way. Sarah is longing to start a new life with a man who won’t commit, and bride-to-be Deb should be looking forward to her wedding, but her future mother-in-law is turning it into a nightmare from hell. While Cher ignores the warning from workmate Dan that Michael is bad news, her friends have their own problems to fix. How can she get him to notice she’s the perfect girl for him? But he barely looks at Cher except to ask for a coffee refill. He’s gorgeous, smart, funny and he’s about to become her new boss. But what if she’s searching for happiness in the wrong place?Īs Cher types up letters about overflowing rubbish bins in a job she hates, she dreams of Michael Hunter.

“I want Michael Hunter to fall so deeply in love with me that he can’t bear to be more than fifty feet away,” Cher declares to her best friends over cheesecake and wine.

Broken bones by angela marsons