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Secrets [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
eBook by Lynne Barrett-Lee
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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime
eBook Description:  Sisters Megan and Ffion have never had secrets, so when Megan goes to flat-sit all she's expecting is a rest and a change. When a stranger called Jack phones, Megan wonders who he is. Ffion behaves like she's just seen a ghost, and refuses to say any more. So is Jack a ghost? Ffion's not telling and when she disappears too, and the mystery deepens. Megan begins to fear for the future. She's always been the one who's looked after her little sister. Is this going to be the one time she can't?
eBook Publisher: Accent Press/Accent
Fictionwise Release Date: October 2006
Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe - What's this?]: SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT [210 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT [50 KB], SECURE ADOBE FORMAT [550 KB]
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Microsoft Reader ISBN, Adobe Acrobat Reader ISBN, MobiPocket Reader ISBN, eReader (recommended) ISBN: 1905170300
 
I WOKE WITH A start, not knowing where I was.
And with that came a moment of panic. But I
wasn't pinned to the bed by an intruder, simply
by a twisted-up sheet. It was a hot night. It had
been a hot evening, the late summer sun
seeping into the flat and turning the air thick
with dust and scent. I'd tried leaving the
windows open, but the steady drone of late
evening traffic had forced me to shut them and
sweat it out as best I could.
I wasn't sure what had woken me, but even
as I untangled my limbs from the fabric and
took in the strange surroundings, it began
again, a low buzzing sound. That was it. That
was where I was. At my sister?s flat in Cardiff.
And something was going bump in the night.
?Crisis!? Ffion had said cheerfully a week ago.
She was phoning because her nanny had let
her down, and she had to go to New York for a
week. Not leading the high life myself, I knew
as much about nannies as I did about rocket
science, but I knew she shared her nanny with a couple who lived nearby. They had two
toddlers and the mother only worked
mornings, which fitted perfectly with Ffion?s
rather less routine lifestyle, because the nanny
was then free for after-school and overnight
stints. But not this time, it seemed.
?My nanny?s going to have her wisdom
teeth out,? Ffion explained, ?so she?s got to go
into hospital.? I knew how hard it was trying to
run your life as a working single mum. Ffion
had been doing it since Emily was three, with
varying disasters along the way. It was only in
the last couple of years that she'd been able to
afford the luxury of having a nanny to let her
down.
?So, big Sis, I had a brainwave,? she went on.
?I thought of you. You're not doing anything,
are you? You'd only need to have her till the
Saturday, and then Tom could drive down and
pick her up from you.?
Which would be a novelty. Ffion?s exhusband
and I hadn't seen each other for about
seven years, which was fine by me, and by him
too, I didn't doubt. With all that had happened
he was my least favourite person, and though I
knew from Ffion that he'd remained a good
dad, that didn't alter my opinion. The last
time we'd met there'd been such a chill in the air I thought ice might start forming on my
nose.
?Oh, I'd love to have Emily come and stay,?
I said.
?She?s off to stay at his parents? caravan for
the week after that,? Ffion went on, clearly not
hearing. ?And you were only saying the other
day how long it had been since you last spent
any time with Em.?
This was true. There were almost two weeks
left of the summer holidays, and though I still
had enough lesson planning to do to make me
feel term should be postponed till October, it
would be nice to leave it for a few days to spend
them with my niece.
?Fine,? I said again. ?But you'll have to sort
something else out for Tigger. Lovely though
he is, I?ve got Ben at home from college.?
My son, Ben, had asthma. Not that badly,
but my sister?s big hairy dog wasn't exactly the
ideal house-mate for him.
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