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The door banged shut behind her and as the lock turned she took a seat on the narrow bed and smiled. It wasn’t so very bad here. After all, it gave her plenty of time to think. They didn’t have much on her: assault, kidnapping, stalking, blackmail. It could have been worse. It was supposed to have been worse. But even if she got ten years or more, it really didn’t matter; the Lawsons, Mac, Clara, they’d all get what they deserved in the end.





Acknowledgements


Huge thanks to Hellie Ogden, Will Francis and the rest of the team at Janklow & Nesbit UK. Thanks so much to my editor Julia Wisdom, her assistant Kathryn Cheshire, Felicity Denham (publicity), Laura di Giuseppe (marketing), Stefanie Kruszyk (production), Ellie Game (cover design), Anne O’Brien (copy editing) and everyone else at HarperCollins who has played a part in the making of this book, I’m grateful to you all. In America I am indebted to my editor Danielle Perez, her assistant Jennifer Snyder, Fareeda Bullert, Dan Walsh, Emily Osborne and Sarah Blumenstock at Berkley/Penguin Random House. My thanks also go to Emma Parry at Janklow & Nesbit US. Thank you to Marcus Jones, Laura Espinel Gonzalez, Alex Pierce and especially to David Holloway.