How Can I Be Sure?

Thea Doukas is on a downward spiral, attempting to recover from a broken heart after her lover Leonie Brandt marries Pia Hartmann. On the rebound, she goes from affair to affair, until she finds some peace staying with Suzanne Weigl and her wife Beth in their house on lake Starnberg.

A dilapidated house next door is up for sale and Leonie suggests they buy it together. Thea is doubtful she can ever live so close to Leonie and Pia, until she meets Leonie’s best friend Emma Stoiber. Winter sport dominates the area, and Emma is on the German biathlon A Team. Thea is immediately infatuated, but Emma has a boyfriend. A full-blown crisis erupts when an intimate photo appears in a scandal newspaper. They separate, their expectations too difficult to reconcile.

A slow-burn romance between two women from very different worlds.

This is the fourth book in the Starnberg series.

Fran Annaford has a career in the entertainment industry. Sometimes she works punishing twelve-hour days and has neither the time nor the energy for more than eating and sleeping. Although she relishes both activities, she loves the early mornings when she is energised enough to lunge at her laptop.

She delights in creating the characters who make up the Starnberg Set. This is the fourth book in the series. There are four more to come. She hopes her readers regularly check the Austin Macauley website for details.