Secrets

Secrets
Freya North

We all have our secrets. It’s just some are bigger than others…Joe has a beautiful house, a great job, no commitments – and he likes it like that. All he needs is a quiet house-sitter for his rambling old place by the sea. When Tess turns up on his doorstep, he’s not sure she’s right for the job. Where has she come from in such a hurry? Her past is a blank and she’s something of an enigma.But there’s something about her – even though sparks fly every time they meet. And it looks as though she’s here to stay…

Freya North

Secrets

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © Freya North 2009

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Ebook Edition © 2009 ISBN: 9780007325801

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Acclaim for… (#u8d54ff8a-df34-5284-8722-ade7955cf65c)

pillow talk:

‘Fast paced, page-turning and full of endearing, interesting characters.

I defy anyone who doesn't fall in love with it’

Glamour

‘Warm, sexy, satisfying’

Heat

‘Darkly funny and sexy – literary escapism at its very finest’

Sunday Independent

‘The novel's likeable central characters are so well painted that you feel

not only that you know them, but that you know how right they are

for each other… the beauty of the North Yorkshire countryside

contrasts convincingly with the bustle of London’

Daily Telegraph

‘North charts the emotional turmoil with a sexy exactitude’

Marie Claire

‘With a storyline packed full of teenage nostalgia and

old-fashioned romance, this is a must-read’

Woman

‘A heart-warming and witty romance’

Bella

‘North has excelled in making her latest novel fresh and exciting.

Pillow Talk is an absorbing novel which will capture and hold your full attention from the opening pages … North keeps the reader guessing to the very end’ Irish Tatler

love rules:

‘Freya North has matured to produce an emotive novel that deals

with the darker side of love – these are real women, with real feelings’

She

‘Tantrums, tarts, tears and text-sex… what's not to love about

this cautionary tale for true romantics?’

Heat

‘A distinctive storytelling style and credible, loveable characters…

an addictive read that encompasses the stuff life is made of:

love, sex, fidelity and, above all, friendship’

Glamour

‘Plenty that's fresh to say about the age-old differences