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Dying to Call You
Signet, Oct 2004, 6.50, 288 pp. ISBN: 0451213327 Helen Hawthorne caught her unemployed husband having sex with their next door neighbor and in a rage she wrecked his SUV. The judge ordered her to pay alimony because her spouse spent the last few years taking care of her and their home while she earned a six figure income. An irate Helen refuses to pay one cent so she leaves St. Louis, relocating in Fort Lauderdale where she accepts dead end job...
Just Murdered
Signet, May 2005, 6.50, 288 pp. ISBN 0451214927 When Helen Hawthorne saw her husband having sex with another woman, she became so mad she smashed his car to pieces. The judge ordered them to split to the income when they sell their house equally and ordered Helen to pay alimony because supposedly he supposedly supported her career by being a house husband. Rather than give him a dime, Helen runs down to Ft. Lauderdale, going from a six figure j...
Murder between the Covers
Signet, Dec 2003, 5.99, 288 pp. ISBN 0451210816 Once upon a time Helen was happily married, living in a mini-mansion and earning over six figures a year as a number cruncher. One day she came home early and discovered her husband in bed with their next door neighbor. After divorcing him she went on the run because she wouldn't obey a court order involving alimony. She now lives in a tall old building in Ft Lauderdale working dead end jobs th...
Shop Till You Drop
Signet, May 2003, 5.99, 288 pp. ISBN 0451208552 After hearing the judge's ruling in a St. Louis Courtroom, Helen Hawthorne goes on the run, leaving a job that pays six figures annum and her family and friends behind. She ends up in Fort Lauderdale working in sales in the exclusive female clothes store Juliana's, earning minimum wage off the books. The clientele consists of trophy wives and men's mistresses who have nothing better to do than sho...