Past imperfect
By: Michael Parker
Publisher: Robert Hale; The Crowood Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780719814266
Description: Best-selling author, Max Reilly, whose wife died in a car crash, meets Emma, who is waiting for a divorce from her violent husband. Their early friendship invokes different emotions in them: Max knows he could fall in love with Emma, while she is more reticent, and holds back. Max does not tell Emma that he is a writer, but the one secret he finds difficult to hide from her is a rough-edged back story that began 50 years earlier. It involves violence, murder, and betrayal. Can Max win Emma's hand despite the past?
Table of contents: title: Max Reilly is still recovering from the hole left in his life caused by the car crash that killed his wife. So when he meets Emma; title: who is waiting for a divorce from her violent husband; title: and is pulled back into the world of desire, it is hard to reconcile with his grief. By nature a more cautious person, Emma is keen to hold back, but as Max opens up about his unsavoury history it becomes difficult to resist the thrill of his secrets. With a past that involves violence, betrayal and murder, can Max convince Emma to share in his future, and let go of his past?