Out of Sight Out of Mind (30 page)

Now the morning was getting into its stride, glittering with promise. She stopped the hire car at the viewpoint, just before the descent, shading her eyes. Her heart was jittering under her ribs.

The track was visible, snaking down in a gentle incline. The farm was nestled at the bottom – the sprawling main house, and a jumble of outbuildings and barns.

There was a man standing in the field closest to the road. He looked as if he’d been standing there for some time. He seemed to be waiting for something.

Madison got back into the hire car and pointed it down. She was almost at the bottom when the light of the sun caught the windshield. She saw the man in the field react to the flash. Even at this distance she could see dark hair flopping over a tanned face. Madison’s heart gave a gigantic leap. Her hand went out, to find her daughter’s.

‘Nearly there, poppet.’

She put both hands back on the wheel to steer the car for the last few hundred yards, to the farm gate.

In the field, Jay began to run.

Evonne Wareham was born in South Wales and spent her childhood there. After university she migrated to London, where she worked in local government, scribbled novels in her spare time, and went to the theatre a lot. Now she’s back in Wales, writing and studying history and living by the sea. Her membership of the Romantic Novelists’ Association lets her enjoy the company of other authors and gives her an excuse to sneak back to London from time to time for essential stuff, like attending parties. She still loves the theatre, likes staying in hotels and enjoys walking on the beach, where she daydreams about her characters. She hopes that all those things come through in her books – drama, glamorous locations, engaging heroines and dangerous heroes.

Evonne’s debut novel,
Never Coming Home
, won the 2012 Joan Hessayon New Writers’ Award.
Out of Sight Out of Mind
is her second novel.

For more information visit
www.evonnewareham.com
and Evonne’s blog at
www.evonneonwednesday.blogspot.com

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From Evonne Wareham

Never Coming Home

Winner of the Joan Hessayon New Writers’ Award

All she has left is hope.

When Kaz Elmore is told her five-year-old daughter Jamie has died in a car crash, she struggles to accept that she’ll never see her little girl again. Then a stranger comes into her life offering the most dangerous substance in the world: hope.

Devlin, a security consultant and witness to the terrible accident scene, inadvertently reveals that Kaz’s daughter might not have been the girl in the car after all.

What if Jamie is still alive? With no evidence, the police aren’t interested, so Devlin and Kaz have little choice but to investigate themselves.

Devlin never gets involved with a client. Never. But the more time he spends with Kaz, the more he desires her – and the more his carefully constructed ice-man persona starts to unravel.

The desperate search for Jamie leads down dangerous paths – to a murderous acquaintance from Devlin’s dark past, and all across Europe, to Italy, where deadly secrets await. But as long as Kaz has hope, she can’t stop looking …

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