A Game for Adults

 

It’s 1989, and four young friends are about to gamble with more than just a pack of cards.

When Sophie Arlington, an independent spirit, meets aspiring musician Johnny Jones over a poker game, their connection is instant. Drawn in by his confidence and high cheekbones, by the end of the night they are sharing a bed. But it’s not just Johnny who’s caught her attention. Also at the table are Sophie’s loyal flatmate Mark and Johnny’s enigmatic friend Henri le Cerf – a charismatic French-Swiss banker with an unsettling charm.

Three months later, when Sophie discovers she’s pregnant with Johnny’s child, her life is thrown into turmoil. Johnny, risking his dreams of stardom, promises to stand by her, but he remains fixated on his musical career. As his band Swerve begins its unstoppable rise, Sophie finds herself questioning her isolated new life as a young mother. Meanwhile, Mark buries his feelings for Sophie, focusing on his own ambitions, while Henri’s seductive presence continues to stir tensions among them.

As their lives intersect across London, Paris and Geneva, their poker nights are only the beginning. The four friends quickly find themselves tangled in a dangerous game of secrets, lust and betrayal, where the stakes are far higher than any of them anticipated.

Decadent, stylish and deeply human, A Game for Adults takes readers into a world of passion, ambition and deceit – where the pursuit of love may cost everything.