Mind Games (53 page)
Authors: Hilary Norman
Cathy’s Journal
Saturday, November 28, 1998
Know your enemies. That’s what he taught me. It was a good lesson in the end.
I remember he once said the same thing about friends.
Thanksgiving was hard this year. I missed my mom and Arnie and Aunt Frances. But Grace and Sam are the best. She says it’s too soon to say if they’ll stay
together for ever. I guess they have a lot to think about.
I don’t think I’ll ever understand why he did what he did. Grace says there are some things we can’t ever expect to understand. She says it’s
okay for me to hate him, so long as I let myself move on. She says we all have to take things a day at a time.
I still get scared sometimes, and there are things I don’t think I’ll ever get used to again. Like knowing people are watching me. And being in the dark.
Sometimes I’m scared to go to sleep. I haven’t told anyone about that – I don’t want Grace to know. I worry about bad stuff, too, like how I could have done what I did to
Harry that day. Grace and my new shrink say that wasn’t really me. I wish I could be sure of that.
I try not to think about it too much. I try to think about how lucky I am. I know I’m lucky to have Grace and Sam. But it all still comes crawling into my head at
night in the dark. I can’t seem to stop it.
More than anything else in the world, I hope Grace is right about one thing. I hope I’m not like him.
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Mind Games (1999)
Last Run (2007)
Shimmer (2009)
Caged (2010)
Hell (2011)
Eclipse (2012)
Standalone Novels
In Love and Friendship (1986)
Chateau Ella (1988)
Shattered Stars (1991)
Fascination (1992)
Spellbound (1993)
Laura (1994)
If I Should Die (1995) (originally published under the pen name Alexandra Henry)
The Key to Susanna (1996)
Susanna (1996)
The Pact (1997)
Too Close (1998)
Blind Fear (2000)
Deadly Games (2001)
Twisted Minds (2002)
No Escape (2003)
Guilt (2004)
Compulsion (2005)
Ralph’s Children (2008)
For Angela Heard.
A greatly missed friend who always
wanted me to write thrillers.
This one’s for you, Angie.
Grateful thanks to (in alphabetical order): Howard Barmad; Jennifer Bloch; Lynn Curtis; Sara Fisher; Gillian Green; Jonathan Kern, for helping in so very many ways; Rose Klayman
of the
Miami Herald
; Kate Miller; Detectives Paul Marcus and Paul Scrimshaw of the Miami Beach Police Department, who shared their knowledge and world with kindness and great patience,
even though I showed up at the
worst
possible time for them; Herta Norman, as always for her crucial daily ‘reviews’; Judy Piatkus; Helen Rose; staff at the Sheraton, Bal
Harbour. And extra special thanks to the ‘Tarlow connection’ – Alison R. Tarlow, M.S., Scott J. Sale, Sharon Tarlow and, as always, Dr Jonathan Tarlow (this time as much for
sailing expertise as medical!).
As always in my novels, all characters and situations are purely fictitious. So, in this case, (though the locations are certainly real) is the Florida weather.
Hilary Norman
Hilary Norman was born and educated in London. After working as an actress she had careers in the fashion and broadcasting industries. She travelled extensively throughout
Europe and lived for a time in the United States before writing her first international bestseller,
In Love and Friendship
, which has been translated into a dozen languages. Her subsequent
novels have been equally successful. She lives in North London, where she has spent most of her life, with her husband and their beloved RSPCA rescue dog.
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