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Chapters (118)
  1. About the Author
  2. Dedication
  3. Prologue
  4. Prologue
  5. Chapter 1
  6. 1
  7. Chapter 2
  8. 2
  9. Chapter 3
  10. 3
  11. Chapter 4
  12. 4
  13. Chapter 5
  14. 5
  15. Chapter 6
  16. 6
  17. Chapter 7
  18. 7
  19. Chapter 8
  20. 8
  21. Chapter 9
  22. 9
  23. Chapter 10
  24. 10
  25. Chapter 11
  26. 11
  27. Chapter 12
  28. 12
  29. Chapter 13
  30. 13
  31. Chapter 14
  32. 14
  33. Chapter 15
  34. 15
  35. Chapter 16
  36. 16
  37. Chapter 17
  38. 17
  39. Chapter 18
  40. 18
  41. Chapter 19
  42. 19
  43. Chapter 20
  44. 20
  45. Chapter 21
  46. 21
  47. Chapter 22
  48. 22
  49. Chapter 23
  50. 23
  51. Chapter 24
  52. 24
  53. Chapter 25
  54. 25
  55. Chapter 26
  56. 26
  57. Chapter 27
  58. 27
  59. Chapter 28
  60. 28
  61. Chapter 29
  62. 29
  63. Chapter 30
  64. 30
  65. Chapter 31
  66. 31
  67. Chapter 32
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  69. Chapter 33
  70. 33
  71. Chapter 34
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  73. Chapter 35
  74. 35
  75. Chapter 36
  76. 36
  77. Chapter 37
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  79. Chapter 38
  80. 38
  81. Chapter 39
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  83. Chapter 40
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  85. Chapter 41
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  87. Chapter 42
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  89. Chapter 43
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  91. Chapter 44
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  93. Chapter 45
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  95. Chapter 46
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  97. Chapter 47
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  99. Chapter 48
  100. 48
  101. Chapter 49
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  103. Chapter 50
  104. 50
  105. Chapter 51
  106. 51
  107. Chapter 52
  108. 52
  109. Chapter 53
  110. 53
  111. Epilogue
  112. Epilogue
  113. Acknowledgements
  114. Read more
  115. Read more
  116. BRISTOL DAILY NEWS
  117. October 2018
  118. THE BEGINNING

And now Flora was scheming behind her back with Jess. Keeping secrets. Pushing her away. After everything.

The floorboard outside her room creaked and Heather jumped into bed, pretending to be asleep, before Jess realized she knew everything.

She couldn’t lose Flora. Not now, not after all they’d been through. She needed to speak to her as soon as possible. She’d heard Flora telling Jess she’d be getting the bus home before dark, which meant she’d be arriving at the bus stop just outside the clock tower at no later than 9 p.m.

And Heather would be waiting.

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I can’t stop thinking about your last moments. They haunt my dreams. And the blood. So much blood, blooming like ink across your blouse, gathering in the ruts of concrete under your head. The shock in your eyes that someone you love – someone who loves you – could hurt you. I held you in my arms, after. Did you know that? I held you and I rocked you, and I cried because I’d been unable to protect you.

That’s all I have ever tried to do.

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Jess

BRISTOL AND SOMERSET HERALD

Friday, 23 March 2012

POLICE MYSTIFIED BY BODY IN BASEMENT

by Jessica Fox

A body found in the basement of a Tilby couple who were shot dead two weeks ago is not that of missing teen Flora Powell, police have revealed.

Clive Wilson and his mother Deirdre were killed in Deirdre’s home in Shackleton Road on Friday, 9 March. While searching Clive Wilson’s Victorian property in Southville, Bristol, police discovered the body of a young girl, thought to be aged between fifteen and seventeen, buried in the basement. An excavation had to be carried out after a crumbling internal wall in the basement collapsed during the routine search, revealing the bones. The body is thought to have been at the house since the mid-1990s.

Heather Underwood, who is recovering in hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, is currently under police arrest for killing Deirdre and Clive Wilson, although no charge has yet been made.

Her sister, Flora Powell, went missing from Tilby in 1994 at the age of sixteen.

DCI Gary Ruthgow of Avon and Somerset CID said: ‘A DNA test has confirmed that the body does not belong to Flora Powell. At this stage we are ruling nothing out and investigations into the identity of the body are still under way.’