NEW RELEASE
Temptation - Olivia Darling (2010)
Three women from different stages and circumstances of life are about to find their lives collide when they each realise they are determined to get what they deserve. Temptation is written like an opera and is centred around the opera world. Singers Cosima and husband/ex-husband Nolan are back on tour together and stalked by crazed fanatics. Juliet attends the opera to get closer to her married boss whom she has been having an affair with for the past five years. Then there's Mercy, a cleaner who dreams of becoming an opera star. When the men in these three women's lives betray them, it's time to stop giving in to their whims and time for them to give into their own temptations and have some fun. These women's temptations lead them through a journey of love, affairs, jealousy, passion and death threats - and proves that hell has no fury like a woman scorned. (PP)
Temptation, the third novel from Olivia Darling (the pseudonym used by Chrissie Manby) is out in March. The summary says: "Three go-getting women will do whatever it takes to make their dreams come true. At La Scala in Milan, soprano Cosima wows the audience while, behind the curtain, her marriage to her fellow opera star Nolan falls apart. On the same night, private banker Juliet embarks on an affair with her boss. And in a council house in London, Mercy swots for her GCSE music exam. Five years later, Cosima must sing once more on the same stage as her ex-husband - and finds that she may still have feelings for him. Juliet has been sacked but is determined to get back on track, whatever it takes. And Mercy is now an office cleaner but is desperate to become an opera singer. As their paths collide, money, sex and ambition become ever more important."