? A Stand-alone Romance Thriller ?
Annabel worked in a shop doing double shifts to support her boyfriend, Jerry, through university, and then they got married. She thought he’d support her through university, but he bought the apartment in London. She landed up with a massive student loan to pay off. As soon as they could think about a family, he bought a house, and kept the apartment as an investment, but she paid all the bills. She never doubted her marriage, although she suspected he may have had a few brief affairs. When they could finally see the light again, she told him it was time for a child because she was running out of time. Jerry told her he was already having a child with a woman half her age.
Jerry had stolen her chance to have a family and in a rage she fought him for two years for a divorce and walked out with everything she could prove she had paid for, which was everything.
She goes to New York to a friend, Christine who had just gone through the same thing with her husband, but the holiday ‘on the pond’ Bell was looking forward to was not going to happen. Chrissy is one dynamic marketing Professional, and employs Bell. Bell knew little about marketing, so she takes over the financial side that she is qualified to do and opens a catering company with a Chef, Joe, who is a single father and his son comes first. The sixteen year old James finds out Bell has to go back to London to move out of the apartment, and his excitement for her going to London is profound. What can she do? She takes the boy with her.
They walk straight in danger and James protects her as much as she protects him. Bell realises that she misses the quiet, unassuming Joe, and calls him for help. While the fight with Jerry starts all over again, Bell realised there is life over 40.
