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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 …
  79. Lisa Stone also writes under the name of Cathy Glass.Don’t miss her latest book …
  80. About the Author
  81. Books by Lisa Stone
  82. About the Publisher

Jan poured a mug of coffee and took it upstairs to drink while she washed and dressed. She needed to buy food for dinner so she could make Ruby something decent to eat. But she certainly wouldn’t be walking along Wood Lane to the village store, not with the chance of whoever was out there stalking her. Tinder would have to forgo his walk today. She would take her car and drive into Coleshaw. It would do her good to be in a town again with lots of people, and the supermarkets there would have a much better choice than the local store. She should leave as soon as she was ready to make sure she was back in plenty of time for when Ruby arrived.

Jan took her empty mug downstairs, shut Tinder in the living room and, collecting her jacket and bag, left the cottage. The air was chilly and she slipped on her coat as she went to the car. She was about to get in when she noticed muddy streaks over the car roof. As she looked more closely, she could see them on the bonnet too. Most of the leaves had been blown off in the wind last night, revealing these muddy track marks as if something had been on her car. But the marks were fresh, recent.

She looked more closely. They were too large for a cat or fox and not the right shape – muddy prints similar to those she’d seen by the gap in the hedge when she’d cut the grass. She traced their path. Whatever it was had run over the bonnet and up the windscreen, slipping as it went, then across the roof of the car and slipped down the back. Jan looked around her. There was nothing to be seen. The trees and foliage were still, but she had the feeling she was being watched just as she’d had in the garden. She quickly took a photo on her phone of the track marks – more evidence to show Ruby – then got into the car, pressed the central locking system and began the drive to Coleshaw.

THIRTY

Don’t go anywhere near this place! They are in it for their own selfish ends. Ms L’s online review of the Moller Clinic had read. Ian had dismissed it when he’d first read it, but now he’d visited the clinic and met the Mollers, he thought there might be something in it. But what?