This Secret We're Keeping

A pupil and a teacher. Is it ever right to break the rules? 
 
 Jessica Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. 
 
 After all, he was her first love when she was fifteen. But he was also ten years older and her school maths teacher. . . 
 
Their forbidden affair ended in scandal with his arrest and imprisonment. 
 
 Now, seventeen years later, Matthew returns to Norfolk, with a new identity and a long-term girlfriend and a young daughter, who know nothing of what happened before. 
 
Yet when he runs into Jessica, neither of them can ignore the emotional ties that bind them together. 
 
 With so many secrets to keep hidden, how long can Jessica and Matthew avoid the dark mistakes of their past imploding in the present? 
 
 This Secret We're Keeping is a powerful and provocative novel about the ties which can keep us together - or tear us apart.

You might be surprised who you find yourself rooting for in this engrossing and intelligent tale of forbidden love. I enjoyed it hugely

This is no conventional love story. Great stuff

Rebecca Done lives in Norwich and works as a copywriter. She is the author of This Secret We're Keeping and My Husband The Stranger.

Jess Hart has never forgotten Matthew Landley. 
 
He was her first love when she was fifteen - but he was ten years older and her maths teacher at school. It ended in scandal, with his arrest and imprisonment. 
 
Now seventeen years later, a forty-two-year-old Matthew arrives back in Norfolk with a new identity, a long-term girlfriend and young daughter who know nothing of his past. Yet when he runs into Jess, long-suppressed memories of their love affair begin to be rekindled. 
 
But with so many secrets between them, will they ever be able to escape the damage they caused before?

Rebecca Done

What you would do if your husband became another person overnight?

Warning - you will not want to put this down. The twists and turns will have you on the edge of your seat

An emotional page-turner with a shocking twist you'll never see coming

When Molly married Alex, she thought theirs would be the perfect future. But after a night out with his twin brother, a terrible injury leaves Alex with permanent brain damage. In a single moment the man she married is transformed into someone new. Someone who has forgotten how to love her. And someone Molly isn't sure if she can ever love again. 
 
How can she stay married to a man she doesn't know? Should she let the future she dreamt of slip from her fingers? And what really happened on that night which turned her husband into a stranger?

Rebecca Done

Praise for My Husband the Stranger

What you would do if your husband became another person overnight?

Praise for Rebecca Done

You might be surprised who you find yourself rooting for in this engrossing and intelligent tale of forbidden love. I enjoyed it hugely

What you would do if your husband became another person overnight?

Praise for Rebecca Done

You might be surprised who you find yourself rooting for in this engrossing and intelligent tale of forbidden love. I enjoyed it hugely

What you would do if your husband became another person overnight?

Praise for Rebecca Done

You might be surprised who you find yourself rooting for in this engrossing and intelligent tale of forbidden love. I enjoyed it hugely

Books by Rebecca Done

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