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(The second book in the Carstairs series)

A novel by Miranda Lee

Escape from obsession! Ebony is an Australian supermodel She is

also Alan Carstair's ward Once they were close, but now it is no

secret in Sydney's glamorous fashion world that Ebony and Alan are

openly hostile toward each other Why? What nobody knows is that

Ebony and Alan are caught up in an obsession for each other

However, both can no longer bear the pain of their all-consu

passion, and each has a plan to break free Ebony intends to leave

Alan, while he is determined to make her pay for those years of

tortured desire But sometimes a bitter end leads to a new

beginningand where there was hatred, there can be love

CHAPTER ONE

'I PRESUME you'll be going to the wool fashion awards tonight?'

Deirdre Carstairs asked her son over lunch

'Unfortunately, yes,' was his cool reply I 'Why ''unfortunately''? Fashion is your business, after all' And your life, she added silently, and with -some irritation Alan had always been a workaholic, but lately he orse than ever, soht that establishing a chain of very popular off-the-peg menswear stores all over Australia, as well as personally running theestablishh Noas planning on branching out into designer clothes as well

Deirdre suppressed a sigh It was so difficult to tell Alan anything

He'd taken over as head of the family when he was only twenty, his

father's unexpected death fro left the family's

clothes factory on the brink of receivership Their home too had been

found to be holding a second e Alan had had to work his

fingers to the bone to pull them out of bankruptcy But he'd succeeded,

and succeeded very well She was extremely proud of him

The one unfortunate result of his success, however, was that he'd