The Girl in the Rug (31 page)

Andy snuggled down beneath the warm duvet. He could hear the
quiet regular breathing coming from Benji, as he slept peacefully in his little
bed on the other side of the room.

Andy turned over so that he could see the photo of Lucy that
Maya had found for him, propped up on his little bedside cabinet. She was
smiling…a big smile at the camera…and holding up a grubby doll. Andy remembered
that doll…she had called it Samantha, nobody knew why…and she had loved it,
taken it everywhere with her, Andy remembered.

The moon was shining through the curtains, lighting up the
little room. He was wearing new pyjamas, they were ‘Star Wars’ ones…he had
chosen them himself, they felt comfortable and warm…he felt comfortable and
warm.

He knew that Mum would come for him one day…he knew she
would. But for now he would stay with Maya and Helen and Nonna…he loved Nonna.
She had read him a story at bedtime…even though she hadn’t known all the words
and he’d had to tell her some of them. Yeh she was great Nonna was…with a
contented sigh, Andy settled down under his warm covers, his eyelids began to
droop as he drifted off to sleep…he was safe at last.

THE END

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‘Lost Girls’ is my fifth novel; and also the fifth in the
‘Witches of Glory Woods’ series, the first four books being ‘Mummy’s Little
Girl’, ‘Bad Things Happen’, ‘Nasty Bitch’ and ‘The Girl in the Rug’. All books
can be found on Kindle. You can find the descriptions on the following pages.

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Thanks

Thank you to all my wonderful family and friends for all
their encouragement and support, Emma and Natalie for listening to me droning
on about my story lines, and giving me good honest criticism, Ben, Abby and
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for looking so gorgeous on the front of ‘Bad Things Happen’ and Marcus for
designing my covers.

My special thanks go to Steve for his constant love and
support, and the hours of work he puts in getting me published…thank you
darling.

Lost Girls

With cruel anticipation, Jonas Silco watched each one as
they arrived. He could feel their nervous excitement, their delight in being
away from home for the first time. Some of them looked about themselves boldly,
not in the least bit intimidated by the splendour of their new environment.
Others barely raised their eyes from the floor so overwhelmed were they by the
situation they found themselves in….

These were his prey, these young girls…they were all alone
in an unfamiliar city, away from all that was familiar to them, away from the
protection of their families. He smiled to himself…this was his domain…they
were under his control now.

Twenty years later a skeleton is discovered underneath a car
park in Redbank and DI Carla Right and her team are called in to investigate. A
couple of weeks later a local business man is brutally murdered. Inexplicably,
similarities between the two murders soon start to appear, despite the fact
that there are twenty years dividing them.

As the evidence begins to unfold however, Carla and her
sergeant, Frank Hill, realise that they are dealing with the worst sort of
murderer. One who believes he has right on his side, one that won’t stop until
he has had his revenge and one who is willing to destroy anyone who gets in his
way.

The Witches are back, Carla, Maggie, Tracy and Helen can be
found at their usual table in The Bull public house on the green at Kenley.
There are weddings and babies on the horizon, plenty of drama to be discussed
and lives to be dissected at their weekly cauldron meetings, all washed down
with a couple of bottles of wine and of course the obligatory bags of cheesy
Wotsits for Tracy.

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Run!

Once again Lucinda Hibbard is lying in a hospital bed.

Once again her face is swollen and battered, her body beaten and
broken. And once again her violent, brute of a husband is crying and grovelling
at her bedside, begging forgiveness and promising that it will never, ever,
happen again.

Lucinda doesn’t believe him anymore…she knows how little it takes to
turn him from a caring husband into a vicious animal.

She knows next time he could kill her.

That’s why she knows that this time she must run!

Seventy eight year old Flora Metcalf sits terrified night after night
in her darkened house. Helpless…unable to defend herself from the little thugs
that are terrorising her. She cowers in her chair as they rattle her doors and
windows, she cries with dread at the spiteful whispered threats.

She pleads for help…but no one comes.

Should she run…or should she make them pay?

Spite, retribution and betrayal are all speeding towards the quiet
little village of Kenley.

It is useless to run, there will be no safe place to hide...like a
thick insidious fog it will creep into every crevice, spreading its evil
tentacles far and wide. Seeking out the vulnerable, the weak and the damaged.

The Witches of Glory Woods, Carla, Maggie, Tracy and Helen, face their
greatest challenge yet. Terrible events that will set them against each other
and threaten to tear them apart.

Only their friendship will give them the strength to
overcome this latest challenge, but will it be strong enough or will they
crumble? 

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Mummy's Little Girl

How much can the human heart take before it either gives up
or fights back?

Evil is lurking in the sleepy village of Kenley.

Amongst the pretty cottages with their chintz curtains and
pastel walls dark secrets are being hidden, plots are being hatched and revenge
is being sought.

And when the body of a young girl is discovered in the
middle of the Glory Woods, a nearby local beauty spot, Detective Inspector
Carla Right starts to uncover secrets that have been buried for many years,
secrets that will change the lives of some of the local residents forever.

Along with Maggie, Tracy and Helen, her fellow Witches of
Glory Woods, Carla has always felt safe and secure in her village surrounded by
her friends and family, and she is determined to find who is responsible for
this brutal murder and restore peace and tranquillity to the people of Kenley
village once again.

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Bad Things Happen

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare!

In the dead of night, a child is taken!

Once again someone in the tiny village of Kenley has blood
on their hands.

Detective Inspector Carla Right is really up against it this
time, as she heads up the investigation to find the missing boy before it’s too
late. But all is not as it seems and soon the case becomes much more
complicated than a simple kidnapping.

With the help of Maggie, Tracy and Helen, her fellow Witches
of Glory Woods, Carla begins to unravel a complex set of circumstances that
will tear one family apart, and leave her gentle village reeling in the
aftermath.

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Nasty Bitch

Someone is torturing and killing men.

Someone has been waiting and planning for years, to exact
revenge on the people of Kenley Village.

The dreadfully mutilated bodies of several men have been
discovered, both here in England and in Florida, USA.

So when a courting couple find the grisly remains of a man
in a disused barn near Kenley, Carla and her team fear that they may have a
serial killer on their hands.

Life has moved on for the Witches of Glory Woods, Carla,
Maggie, Tracy and Helen have all got new challenges to deal with, but the one
thing that remains constant is the friendship that binds them together and the
knowledge that they will always be there for each other…no matter what life has
to throw at them!

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