Dear Reader

Welcome to Claibourne & Farraday, "the most stylish department store in London", with its Tiffany window and superb arts and crafts interior. It's a store filled with precious and beautiful things from every part of the globe.

On the retirement of their father, the three talented Claibourne sisters are all set to take the store into the twenty-first century. Romana as head of Public Relations. Flora, a designer with an instinct for a "look". India, the oldest of the sisters and passionate in her love for the store, stepping into her father's shoes as Managing Director.

But the Farradays, three dynamic businessmen with plans of their own for Claibourne & Farraday -- and an arcane "golden share" clause to back up their claim -- are determined to take control of the store back into Farraday hands.

Buying time, three precious months to unravel the secrets of the past, India invites the Farraday cousins to "work-shadow" her and her sisters in order to find out what it takes to run a department store like Claibournes.

In April the lovely, high spirited Romana Claibourne confronts banker, Niall Farraday Macaulay in The Corporate Bridegroom. Their first meeting is a disaster …

In May join Flora Claibourne, reserved, academic, determinedly plain as she attempts to avoid being "shadowed" by playboy Bram Farraday Gifford in The Marriage Merger. Her plan backfires when he joins her for her trip to the seductive island of Saraminda …

In June, India Claibourne, elegant, clever and wedded to her career, gets up close and personal in a showdown clash of wills with Jordan Farraday in The Tycoon's Takeover. In the boardroom and … out of it …

With love

Liz Fielding