Emma Caine is pushing forty and life is hitting her hard. Her husband has been brain damaged, she's lost her job, and she might lose her home. Instead of giving up, Emma starts hitting back. Drawing on experiences from a misspent youth, she opens a dominationdungeon in an outbuilding in her garden a
Folly
โ Scribed by Cameron, Stella
- Book ID
- 108918026
- Publisher
- Severn House Publishers
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Series
- Alex Duggins 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781780106267
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Following the breakdown of her marriage, Alex Duggins has returned to her picturesque hometown of Folly-on-Weir in the Cotswolds in order to start afresh. But you can't outrun the past, as Alex is about to discover when she stumbles across a frosted corpse buried in the snow. The subsequent murder investigation threatens to unearth old secrets โ including Alex's own.As Folly-on-Weir braces for a chilling winter and Alex finds herself top of the police's suspect list, she determines to clear her name and find the real murderer. But as she begins to peel back the layers of deception that have long-concealed one of the town's darkest secrets, she herself becomes the target of a ruthless killer who has nothing left to lose. Will Alex be the next snow-covered body to be found in the beautiful hills above the town? .
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