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Chapters (66)
  1. Cover
  2. THE HEATWAVE
  3. Readers love The Heatwave
  4. Dedication
  5. Prologue
  6. Chapter One
  7. Chapter Two
  8. Chapter Three
  9. Chapter Four
  10. Chapter Five
  11. Chapter Six
  12. Chapter Seven
  13. Chapter Eight
  14. Chapter Nine
  15. Chapter Ten
  16. Chapter Eleven
  17. Chapter Twelve
  18. Chapter Thirteen
  19. Chapter Fourteen
  20. Chapter Fifteen
  21. Chapter Sixteen
  22. Chapter Seventeen
  23. Chapter Eighteen
  24. Chapter Nineteen
  25. Chapter Twenty
  26. Chapter Twenty-One
  27. Chapter Twenty-Two
  28. Chapter Twenty-Three
  29. Chapter Twenty-Four
  30. Chapter Twenty-Five
  31. Chapter Twenty-Six
  32. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  33. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  34. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  35. Chapter Thirty
  36. Chapter Thirty-One
  37. Chapter Thirty-Two
  38. Chapter Thirty-Three
  39. Chapter Thirty-Four
  40. Chapter Thirty-Five
  41. Chapter Thirty-Six
  42. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  43. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  44. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  45. Chapter Forty
  46. Chapter Forty-One
  47. Chapter Forty-Two
  48. Chapter Forty-Three
  49. Chapter Forty-Four
  50. Chapter Forty-Five
  51. Chapter Forty-Six
  52. Chapter Forty-Seven
  53. Chapter Forty-Eight
  54. Chapter Forty-Nine
  55. Chapter Fifty
  56. Chapter Fifty-One
  57. Acknowledgements
  58. Keep Reading …
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  60. The third book in Katerina Diamond’s bestselling crime series
  61. The fourth book in Katerina Diamond’s bestselling crime series
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  64. About the Author
  65. Also by Katerina Diamond
  66. About the Publisher

I feel a picture of the past forming in my head, like a book you read once and then when you watch the movie several years later, you know it’s not exactly as you remember it, but you aren’t sure what’s different. It would be easy to find out; all I need to do is go back home. I’m not sure I’m ready.

Chapter Thirty-Four

Then

Jasmine had three large assignments to complete over the summer for her A Level interviews. The college had asked for a piece for each course she wanted to attend, as there was high demand for the ones she was interested in. She decided she wanted to focus on those rather than what had happened last night; she couldn’t keep torturing herself by thinking about Tim and what they had done together. If she told her parents about him going through their room then she would have to admit what she had done with him, why he was even in the house at that time of night. She couldn’t bear the thought of the look of disappointment they would give her.

They had been asked to fill a seventy-five-page scrap book, so she planned to use five pages for each country they had visited since she was in her mother’s stomach. Her parents had put a world map up in their dining room, which filled almost a whole wall, and had flag stickers on all the countries they had visited, a few from before Jasmine was born. There was a slightly heavier concentration in central and South America, as her mother was fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and could get by with many of the local dialects.

She ran upstairs and rooted through her wardrobe. She was almost out of clean summer clothes. The small amount of rain last night had made little difference to the suffocating heat – she thought today might be the hottest day yet. She found an old pair of harem trousers and a halter-neck top. They didn’t really match but she didn’t care. She scooped her dirty clothes from the chair and the floor before taking them downstairs and throwing them in the washing machine. She turned the machine on and then went straight to the freezer to look for an ice lolly or something because it was so hot, she could barely think. There was a freeze pop in the bottom drawer and she laid it across the back of her neck to try and cool herself down.