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  "I am everything you ever feared in your life. Someone would pay one way or another for the filth and humiliation suffered. Bitter Sweet Revenge."   Rosalind McKinley is a tough 28 year old cookie, ambitious and extremely determined to leave her unhappy past well and truly behind her in Indiana and an abusive, sexist lout of a father unwittingly following in sister Shirley's footsteps who had long since escaped this drudgery.   Both girls carry a family portrait, sentimentally showing two young girls standing in a park, one 5 years of age the older one, 15. A lifelong bond and inevitably, essential to the plot and the thriller element of this story. Will they meet up and be reunited?   Rosalind undergoes a dramatic transformation: a new persona emerges with a "tinge of quality for a woman of obvious quality." Leonora Carrington-Jones' love affair with Manhattan, New York begins at the salubrious C arlisle hotel, synonymous with wealth and

" So many secrets, lies and burdens of shame. The truth was like the tide: no matter how far it might ebb, it would always make a return." One of those easy reads but infuriatingly incredible to believe. Lies, deception and hypocrisy emerge to shatter the cosy existence of Eva, a famous ex-model living in the lap of luxury having shunned the limelight. The reason? The book begins by disclosing details about a vicious knife attack by a psychopathic maniac who had been stalking the beautiful Eva during the height of her fame. The attack was barbaric and life-threatening more so because Eva was pregnant at the time. She was fighting for her life but miraculously survived to give birth to a son. She was left badly disfigured. "There were so many of them, cruel jagged gashes torn into the flawless fabric of her skin, grinning, like silent, gruesome mouths." Eva's cold-hearted and selfish rejection of her son, unable and unwilling to love and cherish him resul