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Now, from the author of Destiny, comes a novel certain to be as talked about, as richly romantic and wicked, as that number 1 New York Times best seller. Lovers and Liars is Sally Beauman's sensuous, very contemporary story of public masks and secret lives, of a "perfect" marriage that is not what it seems, and of lovers long segregated yet destined to meet, tumultuously, again. On a frosty January day soon after the New Year's revels, an exquisitely outfitted, beautiful blonde female sends four equivalent parcels to four different areas: Paris, NY, Venice and London. However the lovely messenger is not who she says to be. Photographer Pascal Lamartine obtains his program in Paris: it is just a woman's dark glove, silky, scented, and troubling. In London, reporter Gini Hunter, little princess of a famous Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, starts her parcel to find even more threatening contents. And within time, Gini's enterprising editor assigns both her and Pascal to expose the storyline of a lifetime; a tale so wealthy, so ripe with potential scandal, that it could make headlines--and wreck lives. For Gini and Pascal must penetrate the perfect facade of John Hawthorne, the captivating, charismatic U.S. Ambassador to THE UK, to dig through the levels of ever-shifting real truth about his life. The prosperous scion of a famous American family - in a nutshell, perfect presidential material - John Hawthorne seems to have thrown away a promising politics career to take a diplomatic post. Why? His partner, Lise, a famous beauty, is a get good at at seducing the mass media; her fragile features are a regular presence on the population pages on her behalf charity work, her skills as a hostess, and her unrelenting chic. The exhaustive, adoring coverage has still left the real female mysteriously opaque. And now, unbelievably, she seems to be the foundation of certain whisperings about her partner.