Finishing Touches — Patricia Scanlan

Cassie Jordan has always been at the beck and call of her demanding family. Used, taken for granted, she decides enough is enough. But her family are not ready to let go. Barbara, her jealous youngest sister, is furious with Cassie and causes a row that tears the family apart.

Laura and Aileen, Cassie's life-long friends, have shared so much. Their first flat together, giddy holidays, the triumphs and disasters of romance. The sadness of bereavements. They are with her all the way. And then there's the enigmatic, sexy David Williams, who touches Cassie's life in a manner that she will never forget as she finds independence and success despite family opposition.

Finishing Touches is an engrossing story of schoolmates and soulmates, of shared secrets and desires -- and how one young woman dared to make her impossible dream come true.