White Ice

Prima batlerina Lydia Kusminskaya, whose talents saved her. from starvation in imperial St Petersburg, trusled her beauty to secure ber place in tbe gilded cocoon of tbe court — unaware of the cataclysm about to destroy it, and ber hopes. mdf Eiebty vears later, in London, the legacy of Lydia's beauty snares a woman and two men in the trap of their oun obsessions: Alexander Wolfe, the desirable American who worships women and glamour; formidable businesswoman Bianca Berrisford, who believes beauty always has its price: and Lovat Whitburn, her bitter ex-busband, for whom beauty, once an ideal, is now a weapon. End Now the three are chained to Lydia and each other in a letbal struggle for wealth, love and, above all, power. But the illusion of beauty which betrayed Lydia is lying in wait for them, too … ‘A breathtaking achievement’ — Woman's Own ‘Ms Brayfield knows what she is doing … her wome: sound and act like real women’ — Anthony Burgess in the Independent ‘A wonderfully written novel about men, women and burning obsession.