Jack Bartolli is a successful lawyer and the youngest son of a wealthy family, used to getting his own way and having full control of his life. Diane Phillips is a young and gifted surgeon, alone in the world and used to taking care of herself. A chance meeting between them is about to send them both on an emotional roller coaster, culminating in a tragedy that rocks Jack's family to its very core and threatens to tear Jack and Diane apart for ever.Can the passion they feel be tempered into a deeper understanding? Can each learn to forgive the flaws in the other? But, ultimately, can Jack convince Diane that she is not simply another of Bartolli's obsessions?A story of love, passion and betrayal that keeps the pages turning.Diane Ward is a happily married middle-aged woman with two teenage children, living in the north west of Durham, England. She enjoys working as a lunchtime supervisory assistant at a local primary school and writes in her spare time.Her book, Bartolli's Obsession is the first of the Bartolli Trilogy.