Before her marriage, Catherine Fox had been a successful features writer, within an ace of taking over the editorship of Australia's most glossy magazine. Then she met Paul Grant. Attraction had been mutual and the time was right. Four years later, and with three young children, Catherine feels like an unequal partner in their life together. Paul's body seems untouched by fatherhood, but hers is like a stranger's - with lines and marks and bulk where none had been before. Resentments hidden behind politeness do more to poison their relationship than outright anger. Into the domestic drama walks Andromeda, the spiky-haired nanny, Janie the glamorous former girlfriend, and Henry.....dear Henry

Joyce Mitchell's beloved husband Mitch died five years ago. Since then she's kept her hands full and her mind and heart occupied by running The Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services like day care and job counselling to young women. Joyce's life is rich and full, but something is missing. What she doesn't have is that red dress she keeps dreaming about or the social life to suit it. And she may not have The Sewing Circus much longer due to funding cuts. Feeling defeated and pessimistic, Joyce reluctantly agrees to keep a date for dinner at the home of her best friend, Sister - a reverend like no other - and finds not only a perfect meal but a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson.

Women rule in Women's Country. Women live apart from men, sheltering the remains of civilization. They have cut themselves off with walls and by ordinance from marauding males. Waging war is all men are good for. Me are allowed to fight their barbaric battles.....amongst themselves, garrison against garrison. But all the secrets of civilisation are strictly in the possession of women. Naturally, there are men who want to know what the women know.....and when Stavia meets Chernon, the battle of the sexes begins all over again

High fashion, low cunning - and the boss from hell. When Andrea first sets foot in the plush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She's never heard of the world's most fashionable magazine, or its feared and fawned-over editor, Miranda Priestley. Soon she knows way too much....