LIST OF DARES:
- INTOXICATION
- THEFT
- SEXUAL DELINQUENCY
Cleeve is not for everyone…
When Eve’s husband is appointed housemaster at his old boarding school, Cleeve College, she gives up her life in London to join him. But the isolation and loss of autonomy threaten both her happiness and her marriage.
The arrival of Fen, an enigmatic artist and wife of the new Classics teacher, is a welcome distraction. Fen doesn’t play by the rules, and she and Eve enter into a game of escalating dares, disrupting the delicate balance of school life.
Then, the morning after Hazard Night, a tradition that allows the students to run wild and play pranks for one day, a body is found. Someone has been murdered. And it seems everyone has something to hide…
"YOU'RE LIKE ME. I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN THAT. DESPERATE."
Former child star Lily Thame is now a struggling
thirty-something actress.
Adam Harker is on the brink of making it big, but he needs an appropriate red-carpet companion to seal the deal,
and Lily fits the bill.
When Adam winds up dead in a swimming pool, Lily is convinced someone was out to get him - and now they're after her...
FORTUNE FAVOURS THE FRAUD...
When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the life she felt she was destined to lead. Now, at eighteen, Ada is given a second chance when her wealthy godmother gifts her with an extravagant art history trip to Italy.
In the palazzos of Venice, the cathedrals of Florence and the villas of Rome, she finally finds herself among the kind of people she aspires to be: sophisticated, cultured, privileged. Ada does everything in her power to prove she is one of them. And when a member of the group dies in suspicious circumstances, she seizes the opportunity to permanently bind herself to this gilded set.
But everything hidden must eventually surface, and when it does, Ada discovers she’s been keeping a far darker secret than she could ever have imagined…
