Good Girl Bad (52)

Unspoken in those words, is Rebecca conveying: I know you might be more comfortable with anyone but me. I accept that. I will keep working on it. Forever. At first she thought she had to say them out loud, over and over. But her therapist told her she just had to show Tabby that that was the case.

She puts more thought into how to do that than in any other thing she has ever done.

Now, Tabby dithers on the deck. Then she comes to a decision. She steps closer to them, and leans down to kiss Nate on the cheek. “Bye, Dad,” she says.

Then without missing a beat, she leans over to Rebecca, too. “Bye, Mom,” she says, her eyes flicking to Rebecca’s, then she plants a kiss firmly on Rebecca’s cheek, then turns on her heel and skips lightly down the stairs, her ponytail swinging.

She doesn’t look back, and Nate and Rebecca watch her wheel her bike from the shed in amicable silence.

Then she swings one leg over and pedals away.





Thank you for reading Good Girl Bad. I hope you enjoyed it, and I’d love you to join me for my next standalone novel, Sister in Trouble:



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Adele French lost her sister, Celia, fifteen years ago, and she’s never stopped looking for answers or someone to blame.

Now, human remains have been found near the home Celia once shared with her husband, Albert.

Adele thinks she can finally put her sister to rest. Not to mention the ugly lies that Albert fabricated about Celia after she disappeared. She’s determined to uncover the truth about the night Celia vanished, and see justice served at last.

But Adele told some lies, too, back then.

And if you dig for secrets in dark places, you can’t always control what comes to light…



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the good daughter





A violent murder.

A family secret.

And a boyfriend who's not who he says he is...

Sydney, Australia. Lawyer and companion Natalie Coommaraswamy struggles to be the good daughter her parents demand. A second-generation Sri Lankan, she’s never penetrated her family’s resolute silence surrounding their flight from Sri Lanka, and has been left with unanswered questions about where she belongs and who she can trust.