Old sins cast long shadows. Enter the irresistible world of Penny Vincenzi. Read her very first novel. With an exclusive new introduction from the author.

Penny Vincenzi is one of the UK's best-loved and most popular authors. Since her first novel, Old Sins, was published in 1989, she has written fourteen bestselling novels, most recently The Best of Times and the number one bestseller An Absolute Scandal. Her first 'proper' job was at the Harrods Library, aged sixteen, after which she went to secretarial college. She joined the Mirror and later became a journalist, writing for The Times, the Daily Mail and Cosmopolitan amongst many others, before turning to fiction. Several years later, over seven million copies of Penny's novels have been sold worldwide, and she is universally held to be the 'doyenne of the modern blockbuster' (Glamour). Penny has four daughters and divides her time between London and Gower, South Wales.