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Chelsea Wives
Anna-Lou Weatherley
This is Desperate Housewives meets First Wives Club set in the glamorous borough of Chelsea.On the King’s Road, revenge is sweeter than champagne…They are the ultimate ladies who lunch: Imogen, the beautiful ex-model, Calgary, the glamorous, former fashion editor, and Yasmin, the feisty ex-party girl.But life isn’t all champagne and canapés. Plagued by personal tragedy and united by failing marriages, they mastermind a shocking plan to turn the tables on their husbands.Set against a backdrop of exotic locations, designer boutiques and London's high society scene, these Chelsea Wives are about to join forces and risk it all for the ultimate revenge…
ANNA-LOU WEATHERLEY
Chelsea Wives
For Alan
Table of Contents
Cover (#u5481fc78-a429-5071-a065-0d2ffb413edd)
Title Page (#u6118854d-1349-5caf-8bb0-d9bd611f9d64)
Dedication (#u2647352c-30fe-5d86-a6d3-1dc4da8f77a6)
Our Three Heroines (#ue50fa68d-a2d6-55c8-9487-8a7b07251d1b)
Prologue (#u34de26c0-c4d2-5eaa-b65e-492ce8372c51)
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Chapter 6 (#u000d6627-4b4a-5dfa-9407-0ae01a0486b7)
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An interview with Anna-Lou Weatherley (#u3d90b84f-02a8-5623-a943-d557b789ac44)
Anna-Lou’s Guide to the King’s Road (#u2989acc1-4e43-5f45-bf17-a3cce4850641)
Author Note (#u35d1108c-cbf9-5082-af4f-a2492ee1e122)
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About the Author (#u314d9de1-9216-510c-bfe7-d28d6ebde220)
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About the Publisher (#u146fe4fd-3a1a-570c-95ca-a077998878fe)
Our Three Heroines
Imogen Forbes
Ah, the beautiful, effortlessly chic and smart ex-model who looks like she’s stepped straight out of the pages of Vogue and who once had the fashion world at her Louboutin-clad feet. Imogen’s bright light has been hidden under a bushel for too long thanks to her jealous, possessive, control-freak of a husband, Sebastian who’s hell bent on keeping her all to himself – and firmly out of the spotlight at any cost.
When she discovers her husband’s cruel skulduggery has scuppered her chances of a successful career comeback however, Imogen takes matters into her own hands and with the unwitting help of her friends, Calvary Rothschild and Yasmin-Belmont Jones, plots her cunning revenge against the despotic, power-crazed man she regrets ever marrying.
Only it’s not just her malicious husband she has to worry about; her past is creeping up on her too, namely in the form of a man she once loved. A man she has never stopped loving…
Calvary Rothschild
Rampant social climber and fashion maven extraordinaire, ex-fashion magazine editor Calvary is a stylish aristocrat desperate to keep up appearances - whatever the cost. Thanks to her adulterous, philandering husband Douglas, who can’t seem to keep it in his trousers however, it’s proving to be a little tricky.
Having spent years turning a blind eye his latest, most sordid affair is the final straw and this time she vows to take action. Only divorcing him would mean losing all her vast privileges as a society wife, something Calvary can’t even begin to reconcile herself with.
Desperate and unhappy, relief comes in the form of an unlikely admirer and when presented with the chance to play her part in her friend’s bid for revenge, Calvary seizes the opportunity to stich her own husband up in the process. But can she get her own back on a man who has spent years humiliating her without losing it all, or will Douglas have the last laugh?
Yasmin Belmont-Jones
The young, brash and surgically enhanced wife of the bloated, unsavoury old Lord Belmont, Yasmin Jones, a paparazzi’s dream, may be sailing dangerously close to WAG territory and ostracised by the London society set for being nouveau riche but frankly she couldn’t give a damn – she has all the designer clothes, bags, and champagne a girl could wish.
Besides, it’s not Belmont’s money she’s really interested in. A dark, sinister secret and need for revenge has brought her into the Chelsea fold and Belmont’s bed – and now it’s pay-back time. It soon becomes apparent to the gossip mongers of SW3 that there’s more to Yasmin Belmont-Jones than just a gold-digger in a designer dress – much more….
PROLOGUE
Detective Inspector Mitch McLaren glanced around the magnificent library, casually perusing the literature that was neatly stacked inside the antique wooden bookcases. The fact that he had been kept waiting seemed to irk him more than usual, so much so that he had helped himself to a cheeky nip of cognac from a decanter on the sideboard. Something told him he was going to need it.
