Last Orders / Last One Standing
(2025)(A book in the Last Orders and Last One Standing series)
An omnibus of novels by Maria Frankland
Book One – Last Orders
From where I stand in the shadows outside the pub I own, I can already tell what mood my husband’s in...
and it makes me want to stay exactly where I am. However, I can also see my bar manager, Jay. Sexy, young and exciting, he’s the person who’s going to set me free from my middle-aged monotony.I’m dreading turning fifty more than I’ve dreaded any other birthday in my life. Now that my kids are at university, the prospect of spending the rest of my life with my bullying, balding and boring husband is a miserable one.
Which is why I employed Jay. He gives me the reason I need to get up, to go on and to look forward
and I’ll do anything to keep him.
He’s due to go travelling in a few days and wants me to go with him.
Every part of me screams to begin the new year as I mean to continue – by leaving the old behind in favour of the new. But I have a major obstacle to overcome.
Bryn. Since he’s discovered my affair, he’s realised how much he’ll lose.
And he’ll do anything to prevent me from leaving.
He’s hatching a plan for the New Year party we’re having at the pub this evening. But what he doesn’t know is that I’ve got one too. It’s just a matter of which one of us will go first.
Either of us could be the victim of what’s going to happen as the clock ticks into New Year’s Day.
And either of us could be responsible for it…
Book 2 – Last One Standing
Possessions can be replaced. Memories and loved ones can’t.
The important thing is that my daughter and son are safe after the fire that ripped apart their world as they knew it. And we’re trying to move forward together.
Except there’s something I can’t let go of.
My frustration at being ripped off with most of what I owned and taken for a fool. Going after the person responsible risks exposing the dark secrets I’ve been forced to keep, yet I can’t seem to stop myself.
As I buckle my seatbelt and smile at my daughter, Hayley, I know I must tread carefully as she’s endured more than enough heartbreak already. She believes our trip is merely a holiday to start to heal our pain after all that’s happened.
Little does she know that I’m really here to find someone.
However, it’s not only me with this agenda. Before long, three of us are looking for the same person and depending on who gets there first, there could be one of three deadly outcomes.
The picture-perfect location offers no escape for the person we’re pursuing and ultimately no refuge for any of us when the tables are suddenly turned.
Genre: Mystery
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