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Chapters (82)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. ONE
  4. TWO
  5. THREE
  6. FOUR
  7. FIVE
  8. SIX
  9. SEVEN
  10. EIGHT
  11. NINE
  12. TEN
  13. ELEVEN
  14. TWELVE
  15. THIRTEEN
  16. FOURTEEN
  17. FIFTEEN
  18. SIXTEEN
  19. SEVENTEEN
  20. EIGHTEEN
  21. NINETEEN
  22. TWENTY
  23. TWENTY-ONE
  24. TWENTY-TWO
  25. TWENTY-THREE
  26. TWENTY-FOUR
  27. TWENTY-FIVE
  28. TWENTY-SIX
  29. TWENTY-SEVEN
  30. TWENTY-EIGHT
  31. TWENTY-NINE
  32. THIRTY
  33. THIRTY-ONE
  34. THIRTY-TWO
  35. THIRTY-THREE
  36. THIRTY-FOUR
  37. THIRTY-FIVE
  38. THIRTY-SIX
  39. THIRTY-SEVEN
  40. THIRTY-EIGHT
  41. THIRTY-NINE
  42. FORTY
  43. FORTY-ONE
  44. FORTY-TWO
  45. FORTY-THREE
  46. FORTY-FOUR
  47. FORTY-FIVE
  48. FORTY-SIX
  49. FORTY-SEVEN
  50. FORTY-EIGHT
  51. FORTY-NINE
  52. FIFTY
  53. FIFTY-ONE
  54. FIFTY-TWO
  55. FIFTY-THREE
  56. FIFTY-FOUR
  57. FIFTY-FIVE
  58. FIFTY-SIX
  59. FIFTY-SEVEN
  60. FIFTY-EIGHT
  61. FIFTY-NINE
  62. SIXTY
  63. SIXTY-ONE
  64. SIXTY-TWO
  65. SIXTY-THREE
  66. SIXTY-FOUR
  67. SIXTY-FIVE
  68. SIXTY-SIX
  69. SIXTY-SEVEN
  70. SIXTY-EIGHT
  71. SIXTY-NINE
  72. SEVENTY
  73. SEVENTY-ONE
  74. SEVENTY-TWO
  75. SEVENTY-THREE
  76. SEVENTY-FOUR
  77. Suggested topics for reading-group discussion
  78. Keep Reading …
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  80. About the Author
  81. Books by Lisa Stone
  82. About the Publisher

‘Yes, it’ll be in the garage if she’s at work. She uses it when she takes the dogs out, which keeps her other car nice for work.’

‘Thank you,’ Beth said, and returned to her car.

The mystery was solved. Anne had dangerous dogs and sensibly walked them at night when there was no one else around. It made sense, but that wasn’t the end of it. The Dangerous Dogs Act made it illegal for any dog – regardless of its breed – to be out of control, which clearly Anne’s were. It must have been the dogs that had been going into the garden of Ivy Cottage and terrorizing the tenant. Anne would need to be spoken to and warned that in future her dogs had to be kept on a lead in any public space. However, that wasn’t a matter for CID and Beth would pass it back to uniform to deal with. Satisfied, she headed for home as large drops of rain began splattering on the windscreen.

FIFTY-NINE

Ian sat at the dining table staring at his laptop, angry and upset. He was at home and Emma had gone to her mother’s for the day, which was just as well for he was struggling to hide his feelings. He wouldn’t have believed what Anne had told him had he not seen David with his own eyes.

Atavism. When DNA from our evolutionary past reappeared in the present generation. He’d been reading about it on the Internet. It happened naturally sometimes when a gene mutated, but in David’s case it was because of Carstan Moller’s obsessive need to continue his line. How dare he mess with people’s lives. The arrogance of the man! How much Edie Moller knew Anne hadn’t been sure, but felt she probably knew and turned a blind eye to what he was doing.

Ian hadn’t told Emma what he’d discovered, and he wouldn’t. He’d said he’d seen Anne and she’d confirmed that errors had occurred at the Moller Clinic resulting in too many patients sharing the same donor and babies not surviving. It was all Emma needed to know, now or in the future. They’d agreed that soon they’d have to start making plans to separate, for now they knew they were half brother and sister, a future together was impossible.

Ian’s anger flared again. Moller had played with the lives of his patients, manipulating and deceiving them for years for his own ends. He had told Anne he had stopped, but Ian wasn’t so sure. There’d been no evidence of other donors in the files he had seen. Ian needed to be certain his evil practice had stopped for good, but in a way that didn’t expose David or others like him that might follow. Ian thought he knew how.