Cover artwork :TBA

ISBN : 978-1-906652-05-0
Paperback : 216x138mm : ? pages

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Due to be published 2008

The steady beeping of the travel alarm clock on the bedside cabinet only half woke Raymond Shaw from his troubled sleep. He was dimly aware that it had to be gone 6.40am for the alarm to be nagging him. He didn’t care.

Vague flashes of a dream sparked across his mind, pulling him away from consciousness, tempting him back into the world of his imagination.

There had been a girl, a young girl. He couldn’t remember her name, but he remembered she had been frightened, very frightened, and she had been asking for help.

A sharp knife of pain stabbed behind his eyes and he rolled onto his side, moaning softly. Why was it so hard to remember? Why was it so painful to recall a dream others would have recalled easily and in detail?

The girl had been in danger. He was sure of that. He remembered the feeling of panic. Someone, or something, had taken her. She thought it was him, but he couldn’t reach her. What was her name? Did it really matter? Surely it was just a dream, a flight, however believable, of his not inconsiderable imagination? The girl wasn’t real. Her fear wasn’t real. So why did the thought of her alone in the dark so turn his stomach? Why did he feel such a strong compulsion to telephone the police? It couldn’t have been real.

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