Give and Take — Kate Walker

They would pretend to be strangers

Only it wasn't working out quite that way. They couldn't ignore certain things they'd already discovered about each other.

Liz knew the meeting should never have happened. Although she'd found it easy to communicate with Richard Deacon via letters, she certainly had no intention of getting involved.

But Richard had such a disturbing effect on her that Liz finally found herself wanting to erase the shadows of her unhappy past... .