Second Best

By Pamela Fudge

No one likes to be Second Best…

Anastasia ‘Stacey’ Trent has spent years being treated badly by men.

So when the handsome Nick Cable charms his way into her life and sweeps her off her feet, she’s all too keen to believe he’s different.

So keen in fact, that when he asks her to drop everything and marry him, she doesn’t question why he hasn’t introduced her to his family.

Quitting her job and putting her flat on the market, she heads out to his beautiful country home for her happily ever after.

Instead, she finds only his unsympathetic brother, Lex, who makes it abundantly clear he has no time to deal with the trail of weeping women Nick leaves in his wake.

Not only that, but Nick is due to marry another woman the very next day. Unemployed and homeless, she realises she’s thrown away everything for yet another man who doesn’t love her.

Stacey can barely stomach being in the same room as either of the Cable brothers, but fate forces her and Lex to pose as an engaged couple.

She initially resents this bizarre set up, but comes to love the extended Cable family – aside from heartless Nick, of course.

When hostility turns to attraction between Lex and Stacey, can she ever convince him he’s anything but second best?

Second Best is a gripping tale of love, family, and deception.

Pamela Fudge, born in Poole, Dorset is an author, ghost writer and speaker, whose love of poetry initially led her to further explore her talent for creative writing. Having now developed a substantial portfolio of widely-published romance novels, Pam shares her talents with other aspiring writers, tutoring Writing For Pleasure And Profit classes for the local Adult Education Service. She is also a member of Wessex Writers, The Romantic Novelists’ Association, The Society of Women Writers and Journalists and The Society of Authors.