Books by Tess Stimson

'TEN STARS!... Utterly fabulous... One of the best books I have ever read... You won't be able to put it down.' NetGalley reviewer, You thought she was safe. You were wrong...Alex knows her daughter would never wander off in a strange place. So when her three-year-old vanishes from an idyllic beach wedding, Alex immediately believes the worst.The hunt for Lottie quickly becomes a world-wide search, but it's not long before suspicion falls on her mother. Why wasn't she watching Lottie? Alex knows she's not perfect, but she loves her child. And with all eyes on her, Alex fears they'll never uncover the truth unless she takes matters into her own hands.Who took Lottie Martini? And will she ever come home?A totally addictive thriller, with a twist you just won't see coming. Fans of Lisa Jewell, Louise Candlish and T.M. Logan will be totally gripped from the very first page.Readers are gripped by Stolen:'Wait just one minute while I catch my breath and pick my heart up off the floor. Wow! This book grabbed onto me and would not let go... Five stars' NetGalley reviewer, 'Made my jaw drop!' NetGalley reviewer, 'Omg, wow... just wow, this book is absolutely bloody brilliant.... Worth all the stars and more' NetGalley reviewer, 'Crikey, reading this book has taken up my days and nights for 3 days! I couldn't stop reading it... I loved it!' NetGalley reviewer, 'Absolutely unputdownable' NetGalley reviewer, 'Boy was I gripped... I stayed up all night reading... So many twists and turns' NetGalley reviewer, 'Twist, twist, twist - I loved it... Brilliant!' Jackie Kabler, author of The Perfect Couple'Gripped me from the very first page... The twists and turns will have you at the edge of your seat!' NetGalley reviewer, 'Wow... The twists really blew me away!!' NetGalley reviewer, 'I went through so many emotions reading this... Hits you right in the gut... Such a powerful and emotional read. Grab the tissues' NetGalley reviewer,

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When you abandon the rules, can you ever go back? Mia Allen has never quite adjusted to living in England. She misses her friends in the States and feels restrained by small-town family life near Oxford. Her husband Kit, on the other hand, loves the sense of community here and his job as a school teacher in a private school.Like Mia, Kit's boss Charlie is also looking for more excitement in her life. Her marriage to emotionally-distant Rob has left her frustrated and yearning for more. So when she and Rob are invited to dinner with Mia and Kit, she jumps at the chance to make new friends.One evening, the increasing attraction between all of them moves up a notch, and it's not long before the seductive highs of these new friendships lead to desperate lows. Can any of their relationships survive this unconventional arrangement?

Want to keep your man all to yourself? If so, you need to read this book. In Beat the Bitch, Tess Stimson, self-confessed scarlet woman and wronged wife, delivers a self-help book with a difference. Written in short, snappy chapters and packed with unmissable advice, anecdotes, quizzes and humour, Beat the Bitch tells every woman things she won't want to hear - but needs to. From this book you will discover: * How to put the spark back into your relationship * Whether your partner is vulnerable to attack from another woman * How to find out if he really is being unfaithful . . . and exactly what to do if he is. Beat the Bitch will be the must-read self-help title of 2009. As Tess herself says, should the worst come to the worst, Don't Get Mad - Get Diamonds.

Kate Forrest is invisible... Ned, the husband she adores, doesn't seem to know she's alive, and her two charming children have grown into stroppy adolescents. Her boss is suddenly shunting her towards career Siberia, and her demanding mother is never off the phone. With her fortieth birthday fast approaching, all Kate wants to do is run away from the lot of them. And so she does. On impulse, Kate walks out of her job, her family and her life, and gets on a plane to Italy. With no ties and no responsibilities, she soon finds herself deliriously caught up in La Dolce Vita - and the arms of a man barely half her age. But when the unthinkable threatens her family, Kate is brutally forced to choose between her past and the future.

There are some things we are never meant to know . . . Harriet Lockwood has never really bonded with her daughter, Florence, the way she has with her three sons. Then one day, she discovers why. The girl she's raised for the last fifteen years is not her biological child. Zoey Sands is a single mother with a chaotic lifestyle. The one constant in her life is her daughter, Nell. Nothing can ever come between them - can it? When Harriet turns up on Zoey's doorstep demanding to see her biological daughter, the two families are plunged into a storm of bitter rivalries... and unexpected alliances.

A story of sisters who share just a little too much. Like a princess in a fairytale, Grace Hamilton has been showered with blessings: professional success, a happy marriage, and she even lives in a beautiful castle. But the only thing she really wants - her heart's desire - is the one thing she can never have. Her sister, the beautiful Susannah, has made a mess of her life. Like a reverse Midas, everything she touches turns sour. But Fate puts Grace's future in Susannah's hands, changing the balance of power between the sisters forever.

The Adultery Club: In an often grey world there are fifty shades of seduction. A wife, a husband, a mistress. Whose side will you be on? Life couldn't be happier for Nicholas Lyon, a divorce lawyer and contented husband of the beautiful Mal, a successful cookery writer and mother to their three gorgeous daughters. And then Sara Kaplan, a bright, vivacious young lawyer, explodes into his life like a sexual hand grenade. At first stunned and horrified by the extent of his attraction to her, a catastrophic event soon forces Nicholas to recognize his own mortality and throw caution to the wind. For Sara, what started as a harmless fling swiftly deepens into a painful battle for Nicholas's heart with Mal, who is not quite as preoccupied in her world of food and school runs as Nicholas had believed. But as Mal faces temptations of her own, she realizes she has to decide what she wants - and whether it's worth fighting for.

Klassisk historie: Mand indleder affære med kvindelig kollega på trods af, at han elsker sin kone, på trods af at han ikke kan forstå, at den yngre kollega kan være interesseret i ham, på trods af at kollegaen ikke kan forstå, hvad han vil med hende og på trods af, at konen elsker sin mand endnu mere efter, at han er begyndt at fjerne sig fra hende.Nicholas Lyon, en respekteret advokat, er lykkeligt gift med kogebogsforfatteren Mal, og sammen har de tre skønne døtre. Og så eksploderer hans liv med Sara som seksuel håndgranat... Sara er den nye advokat på skilsmisse(!)kontoret, og Nicholas er både skræmt og fascineret af den stærke tiltrækningskraft mellem de to. Hvad der for Sara starter som en ufarlig affære bliver snart en følelsesmæssig kamp med Mal om Nicholas´ hjerte.