[No Matter What 02] • Illusions of Love

‘Illusions of Love’ is the follow-up to Michelle Betham’s debut novel, the epic, sexy Hollywood romance, ‘No Matter What’.

The story begins a year or so on from the end of No Matter What…

*Please be aware that ‘Illusions of Love’ contains some strong language, adult themes and scenes of a sexual nature.*

Hollywood movie star India Walsh is moving on from her past. Or so she’d like to think. But, as she prepares to start shooting her new movie in Las Vegas – a movie which is to be directed by her ex-husband, Michael Walsh, the man responsible for making sure a great deal of India’s past needed to be left behind – her decision to make this movie means that those around her aren’t too sure that she can truly leave the past behind… Can she really work so closely with Michael – given everything that happened – and not let history repeat itself? Or will a new man in her life bring her a welcome distraction from a past she can’t ever go back to…?

Dominic MacDonald is talented, insanely handsome, and Hollywood’s hottest property. With a habit of dating most of his leading ladies he has a playboy reputation that precedes him, but, as he prepares to head for Vegas to work alongside India Walsh on a new romantic comedy, he’s well aware that she’s one leading lady who may not be so easily swayed. But he’s determined to try. Because he needs to get close to India for a reason…

So, Dominic MacDonald is heading to Vegas with a plan. A plan that involves India. Because Dominic MacDonald has a secret. A big secret. A secret that involves somebody very close to India. A secret that will not only rock her world to its core but also, ultimately, the worlds of those around her…

Meanwhile, India’s best friend Charley has finally moved on from a past she’s fought hard to put behind her. Now a successful beauty salon owner she loves her new role as an up-and-coming businesswoman. She’s happily married to Las Vegas hotel owner and movie producer Vince Maine, they have a beautiful daughter, and a life Charley adores. Until the past she’s tried so hard to forget catches up with her in a way she hadn’t even begun to imagine. A past that puts her bright new future, her marriage, and even the lives of everyone around her in terrifying danger…

Kenny Ross has made a decision – he’s not going to let certain aspects of his life hold him back any longer. He’s determined to try and forget everything that stopped him from moving forward in the past but, when he arrives in Vegas to visit India, he soon becomes involved in something that sees disturbing aspects of his past come back to haunt him. Is history about to repeat itself in Kenny Ross’s world? In more ways than one…

As the lives of this group of people once more become intertwined, is the past finally going to make sure that nobody’s future can ever move forward? Are secrets and lies once more going to cause peoples’ worlds to collapse around them?

As emotions take over, and more mistakes are made, events in all their lives slowly merge together, leading to one shocking and terrifying night that none of them will forget…