Georgette Smith is walking on air. Her fiance Richard is everything she's ever wanted in a man: he's charming, kind, brings her flowers and even loves her mother. When a whirlwind romance is followed by a wedding date, her fairytale seems complete.
But even fairytales have a few frogs. Her mother-in-law takes over her (increasingly lavish) wedding arrangements, and the minute she announces her engagement her boss sacks her. Her new job as assistant to a private investigator, Max, a man who tracks down evidence for divorce cases, lays bare a world Georgette can barely believe: one filled with cheating, drinking, violence, gambling and people trapped in loveless marriages by laws which make it almost impossible to leave them. It's harrowing, but surely, her marriage will be different, won't it? When Georgette sees some compromising photos that hit too close to home she realises that her marriage has a secret so big that if uncovered would heap disgrace upon her and her family forever. Her heart is broken, her dreams shattered, but for Richard, the consequences could be too terrible for words, and Georgette has to decide whether to keep their secret, or bring it out into the light...
Victoria Purman is an Australian top ten and USA Today bestselling fiction author. Her last book The Radio Hour was an Australian bestseller, as were her previous novels. Her earlier novel The Three Miss Allens was a USA Today bestseller. She is a regular guest at writers festivals, a mentor and workshop presenter and has been a judge in the fiction category for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize. To find out more, visit Victoria's website, victoriapurman.com.You can also follow her on Facebook or Instagram (@victoriapurmanauthor).