Reading Between the Lines

Linda Taylor

When she chucked in her safe job to read English at Oxford, Julia Cole didn’t give a thought to the future. But now she’s thirty, newly graduated and it’s pay-back time – at least as far as the bank is concerned. With a cat providing her only male company, Blind Date her only Saturday night engagement and her last relationship further in the past than a pay cheque, she can’t help wondering if she’s missing the point. Until the tall, handsome Rob strides into the class she teaches. And then his alarming brother Leo, a barrister with a penchant for cross-examining, strides into her friend Maggie’s party and puts Julia in the stand. Suddenly, Julia’s life is hotting up. But is she taking both brothers at face value? And is she overlooking the obvious? Perhaps Julia should try reading between the lines...