‘It’s taken me months just to sit down and write this one.’ ‘I’m not sure I have the time to write any more,’ she told him smoothly. But a series of books could be quite cut of the question. She had guessed when she received the written summons to see James Colnbrook that there had been a favourable reaction to the children’s book she had submitted to him several months ago about a playful boxer dog called Billy. Joanna had never been to a publishers before, and the image of a sterilely white and chrome-painted office, modern in the extreme, had given way to a cluttered room that looked more like a lawyer’s office, with manuscripts and books littering the desk-top. He was a man of middle age, his kindly exterior belied by the sharpness of his icy blue eyes, a sense of purpose about him that told the young woman seated across the desk from him that he could be a very shrewd businessman. The man’s smile of confidence seemed to say he was used to dealing with temperamental authors-and that he was usually the victor. ‘If you can write others as good as this first one.’ ‘WE’RE really interested in running a series of these books,’ the man sitting across the desk from Joanna told her. She agrees to his demand, but the rekindling of the desire between them the night before his departure leaves Joanna wondering, is their marriage a failure after all? Or can the spark that’s been reignited burn brightly once again…?

His suggestion that they separate for a year is hurtful, yet Joanna’s been unable to get past her grief-denying Joshua access to her in ever way. The loss of their child a year ago devastated Joanna and Joshua. Read this classic romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book!

The Failed Marriage by Carole Mortimer