Today's workplace has spawned a new infidelity, but without the sex Affairs of the mind
It is every novelist's dream: his book, out-of-print and neglected for years, is finally discovered and becomes the basis for a movie. An international star is cast in the lead role, and lucrative offers to republish the novel come in from around the world. Novel bound for the big screen gets more mysterious with every chapter Twist in this tale
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: The Accidental Femme Fatale
An internet romance led a deluded woman into a plot to kill her lover's wife
Psychologists call it "traumatic bonding", but to Tania Herman, it was a special love. She wanted a soulmate, a protector, someone to make her life complete, and God sent her - with the click of a mouse - Joe Korp. But then Tania was never lucky in love.Her first marriage, when she was 17, was over in five months. Her next relationship, with the father of her first child, ended after two years when she found him with another woman. She stayed with her second husband nine years, but he drank too much. As a little girl she had been sexually abused. That was a special kind of love, too, her abuser said at the time.
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