Bøger af William Bain

Twists of Fate follows the lives of the three main characters across a span of seven years, beginning in 1976.Themes of ambition and revenge drive the plot Michael Kenny is a businesman from Boston visiting a small Scottish town to finalize the contract for a ship being built for his father's Kenny Ship Line. One drunken night he sexually assaults Beth Anderson, a young university student. In retaliation, Beth's boyfriend, Jack Stewart, fights Kenny, and believing he has killed the American he flees to Canada, pursued by Kenny's bodyguard, Jed Maguire Jack is drugged by Maguire and taken to the wilderness of Algonquin Park where he is beaten and left for dead. When he recovers he has amnesia and cannot recall his past. Beth decides to leave her hometown and go to London to escape the memory of her attack and to run away from a loveless home and alcoholic father. Arriving in London she is knocked down by a car driven by a newspaper owner whom she blackmails to give her a job as a reporter. But Lord Harcourt has another reason: he can't stop staring at Beth.The reason emerges later. Michael Kenny returns to Boston where his billionaire father, Patrick, tells him that the Kenny family needs to leave a political legacy. He encourages Michael to become active in politics. With the help of Patrick's money and connections Michael contests the Senate Primary in his State and eventually is elected. Over the next several years the lives of the three characters develop, independently of each other, until a twist of fate brings them together for the first time since 1976. Beth is now a successful journalist in London, engaged to Lord Harcourt. Jack has had a rocky time but is now a newspaper owner and entrepreneur in Toronto. When they chance to meet at a conference in Toronto in 1982, Beth and Jack are consumed with the need to have revenge on Senator Kenny for his attack on Beth which destroyed their romance. Kenny is now running to be President, and his ambition clashes with the need for revenge that consumes Beth and Jack.Together they plot to destroy his political ambitions. But Patrick Kenny has invested his wealth in moulding Michael to create a legacy for the Kenny family and he will stop at nothing to frustrate anyone standing in the way of his vicarious ambition.

In 1938, as the world stands anxiously on the precipice of World War II, an unassuming young woman is unknowingly about to be caught up in events that could change history. While in Germany to improve her linguistic skills, university student Ailsa Sinclair visits the British Embassy, where she has a chance encounter with a dashing British diplomat named Tarquin Forbes. While attending a reception with him at the embassy, she is introduced to a powerful and prominent Nazi politician, Rudolph Hess, Hitler's deputy führer-and a man who will soon play a significant role in Ailsa's future. Caught up in the passion and excitement of her whirlwind romance with Tarquin and the escalating conflict of World War II, Ailsa soon finds herself tangled up in one of the most important secrets of the war-a secret that could destroy the British government and Ailsa in the process. What she and Tarquin uncover along the way shakes them to their very core and threatens the love and happiness they have found together. Paradox is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that takes readers on a side-winding adventure fraught with intrigue, suspense, and a romance that rises above it all.