Colonial Caribee Books
THE BEST-SELLING AND AWARD WINNING AUTHOR CHRISTOPHER NICOLE, WRITING AS CAROLINE GRAY When their father is murdered in British Guiana, the three teenage Grain children journey back to England with their mother. Drawn into the swinging sixties, Matilda and her brother rapidly succumb to the intoxicating sense of freedom surrounding them. Only Joanna is determined to make a success of her life - and when she marries a wealthy man, and eventually gains control of his company, it seems that nothing can stop her. But then she discovers how difficult it is to be a businesswoman at the top when one is very wealthy, very beautiful - and very young.
In 1973, Joanna Orton is one of the most prominent businesswomen in the City. Beautiful and self-assured, she is universally respected. But she is betrayed by her third husband, Dick, whose sales of the shares she gave him most her the control she values above all else. And when a casual love affair turns sour, Joanna inadvertently causes the death of her lover. As she faces a lengthy prison term, she must call on all her courage and determination to somehow climb out of this desperate situation...
She is the owner's representative. On the spot. Therefore, she is responsible for solving problem. Twenty years old and the joint heir to the successful Caribee Shipping line, Helen Edge has just boarded the Caribee Express, bound from Darwin to Singapore with a cargo of rice and sugar. Helen immediately takes to sea life, striking up a friendship with the ship's young captain, Dennis Moore, and for once managing to break free of past unhappy memories. Then chaos strikes when the ship is hijacked by Indonesian revolutionaries. Joanna, with the rest of the crew and the passengers, is now a prisoner on her own ship, far from home and from any British intervention. But Helen's mother, the notorious Joanna, owner of the shipping line, four times married, ex-princess, millionairess and convicted murderess, is not about to give up her only daughter without a fight and fighting is what she is best at ...
Joanna Grain Johannsson is accustomed to living life on the edge. The ex princess, millionairess and convicted murderess was rescued from a prison cell by her fourth husband, Michael Johannsson, and re-instated as the owner of the Caribee Shipping Line. She plans to introduce herself to her son, the business and the future is better. But Michael's sudden death unearths a life of which Joanna had known nothing.