by Winona Kent
“That was very brave of you, under the circumstances.”
“I rang my manager at home. He was glad I didn’t go down with the ship but rather put out that I wasn’t coming back to work to write my report. And he actually wondered what had taken me so long. He said he’d been expecting me to resign for over a year.”
She reaches for her fizzy water—and knocks mine over, along with the candle. Bubbly everywhere. Including my phone.
Is this an indicator of what I have to look forward to?
I right the candle, which hasn’t missed a flicker. I think I’ll invest in a crate of those.
“Have you got anything on underneath that sheet?” Katey says, resisting a peek.
“I refuse to answer that on the grounds I may end up damaged.”
My iPhone, inexplicably, has switched itself On. And it has, inexplicably, accessed Twitter. And it has, inexplicably, opened another DM from Jilly.
I’m Twitpiccing a photo of me. In my garden. I think you might like to see it. Here’s the link.
I go to the new screen. I look, silently.
Oh…
“What?” Katey’s asking, amused, curious.
But there’s another private message from Jilly. With a question. Which I’m not going to repeat.
Wouldn’t you like to know, I message back, privately. Not telling, Cheeky. Goodnight. xxx
I switch her off. With reluctance.
I’ll tell Katey. One day. Not now. Just for now, I want to keep Jilly—and her garden—all to myself. It’s a private thing. It’s brought me peace.
And I think, from now on, I may have to start believing in Guardian Angels.
More from Winona Kent
Persistence of Memory
Combining the language, humor and manners of Jane Austen’s era with charming characters and colorful storytelling, PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY is a mystery, a love story, and a speculative novel about accidental time travel.
Charlie Lowe has two obsessions: saving the Stoneford Village Green from unscrupulous developers and researching her ancestor, Louis Augustus Duran, whose mysterious origins perplex her.
When a freak lightning strike and a rogue computer virus send her back to 1825, Charlie discovers she must persuade a reluctant Sarah Foster to marry Duran, or two centuries of descendants—including herself—will cease to exist.
Unfortunately, Louis Duran turns out to be a despicable French count who spends his days impregnating a succession of unfortunate housemaids and attempting to invent the first flushing toilet in Hampshire.
A hopeless romantic, our heroine does her best to encourage the happiness of those who surround her—but will she be able to mend a matrimonial wrong, restore the Village Green to its rightful owner and, of foremost importance, conclude the tale in the company of the gentleman with whom she was always meant to be?
Skywatcher
Robin Harris grew up watching the 60's spy show Spy Squad, starring his dad, Evan Harris. So when the police deem the mysterious death of a Russian woman with rainbow-colored hair a suicide, Robin knows better.
Robin soon finds himself in the middle of an awesome plot that seems to be lifted directly from one of his father's old Spy Squad episodes, and, as he discovers, his father really was a spy. Now Robin and his brothers have inadvertently walked onto the scene of a real life-and-death spy drama, and as far as the free world is concerned, Robin's entrance into the family business comes not a moment too soon.
The Cilla Rose Affair
A novel of espionage, intrigue, and mysterious sound waves underneath London.
Evan Harris's experiences as a spy helped make him a star playing one on TV. When Britain's best-loved breakfast show DJ dies, only Evan knows what it has to do with a pirate radio station, a long-lost diary, a suspected double agent, the London Underground, and mysterious sound waves underneath the Fitzroy Theatre.
So Evan recruits his three sons to help him unmask the traitor deep within the British spy community in a sting operation not unlike a storyline from his own cult 1960’s TV show…
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