Brenda Paske: 5 books

A single mother is determined to ignore the ghost of her murdered husband. A bank worker discovers the truly infernal nature of the business. A lonely woman trapped in a distant suburb of Los Angeles is stalked by a possible serial killer. These are stories of women who have strayed past the edge of disaster, trapped in nightmares of their own making.

Youth ends. Security ends. Life ends. But not everyone accepts it. In these stories, six women come to the end of their old lives, with no plans for the new one. Brooke hopes that a facelift will fix her now-ordinary life. Inez wants to stop her husbands strange transformation. Cady cant seem to pull...

She had a hard life. She'd earned her rewards. And she wasn't bothering anybody. What was so awful about that? Poor, unloved, overlooked, 31-year-old Rebecca Brown suddenly inherits $80,000 and the chance to live like a queen, but her peculiar new neighbors are determined...

Sara's life is going nowhere. A dead-end job at a title company, renting a tiny room in her best friend Arianna's apartment, no boyfriend and no social life, teetering on the edge of financial disaster. Yet she knows she is destined for more than being a foot soldier in bossy Arianna's over-controlled...

There is a sotto-passagio that starts at the top of the Via Veneto and twists and turns underground. It is lit with flattering pink lights in a long strip on the ceiling. The passage goes past the train connections and the Roman Sports Club. Ultimately it arrives at the bottom of the Spanish Steps,...