It was the place where Meghan held her lavish baby shower for Archie in February 2019 - attended by Amal, who gave her a lift back to Britain on the Clooney private jet.Īnd yet, although it fell well outside the mourning period for the Queen, Meghan and Harry were not among the guests.

Human rights lawyer Amal was joined by guests including Donatella Versace, Meryl Streep, Dua Lipa, Julia Roberts, Gayle King, Cindy Crawford, Jodi Turner- Smith, Charlotte Tilbury and Gemma Chan.Īfterwards there was a party in the penthouse suite of the Mark Hotel. The Clooneys invited showbusiness pals including British actress Phoebe Dynevor, of Bridgerton fame, to attend the launch of their Albie awards, named after South African Justice Albie Sachs, in honour of his commitment to end apartheid. Meghan was missing in action when the Clooneys launched a humanitarian award in New York last September. The Hollywood star and his wife, a lawyer and activist, have not been pictured with Harry and Meghan since the royal couple's wedding at Windsor in 2018.

Stock secondary characters and predictable family dramas leech away some of the suspense, but Jackson livens up her story with a final, dizzying twist.Couple: George and Amal Clooney (pictured) were courted by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and attended the Prince's Trust Awards on Tuesday - an organisation created by King Charles

The relationship between Kane, a lowborn, abused bad boy, and the unreachable, well-off Claire follows a familiar path, but the pages practically sizzle when they're together. Harley's brother, Weston Taggert, a typical animal-abusing sexual deviant, also hates Dutch and would do anything to discredit the Hollands. Now, journalist Kane Moran has returned home to crack open the case and write a book about it, despite the fact that his actions may hurt his old crush, single mom Claire Holland, Dutch's daughter. Sixteen years earlier, his rival's younger son, Harley Taggert, was murdered, and Dutch believes one of his own daughters may have been responsible. He soon learns, however, that they won't go away so easily. After being approached to run for Governor of Oregon, Dutch Holland vows to lay the skeletons of his past to rest. As such, it should generate plenty of excitement among her fans, but new readers may be put off by the book's overabundance of sex and violence. JIn a letter to readers, Jackson ( Cold Blooded, etc.) declares this a 'spanking brand new edition' of her 1999 romantic suspense novel, complete with new twists and a new ending.

Whispers by Lisa Jackson