which involved a lot of hands-on help from Giles, he stopped me with his hands around my waist.
“You will pretend to like it, won’t you?” he joked in that way that betrayed his apprehension. “It’s a bit silly, really, but—”
“Dude! Let me see it already!”
He led me five or six steps away from the landing.
“Careful now. Watch your shin! Lie down.”
I crawled onto a bed, feeling the smooth softness of silken bed sheets under my hands and knees.
“On your back.”
“You’re not going to tie me down, are you?”
“No. Not today, anyway.” He loosened the scarf around my head.
“Oh! It’s—oh, Giles! It’s lovely!”
“Is it really?” He smiled, shy, a little flushed, kneeling on the bed next to me.
The two small bedrooms had been turned into one large one, with a huge black metal bed in the middle. Above our heads was a domed skylight in the neo-gothic style, with Art Deco ornamentation and mulled glass panes.
“It’s beautiful,” I whispered, gazing up and around.
“Could you imagine sleeping up here?”
“Sleeping—no.” I smiled and slid against him on the silken sheets. “Sleeping would be time wasted, wouldn’t it?”
It is a pleasure to see that to Giles it has a deep and peculiar significance to move back into the house his grandfather bought in nineteen eleven, and to make it his own. This is his home ground, but it took him almost twenty years abroad to want to root himself in it. He says that by leaving Ardrossan, I left far more behind than he did, but it doesn’t feel that way.
I feel that I have come home.
About the Author
Nina Lewis wrote her first story when she was nine years old, a drama of love and jealousy set in a circus. Her best friend and she performed it to themselves over and over again, for ever changing the dialogue, conflicts and endings. It strikes her as ironically appropriate that her first published novel is set on a college campus—the habitat of many a strange, loveable or fierce creature. When she isn’t busy training animals to jump through the hoops of college education, Nina is knee-deep in her second novel, which is set in England during the French Revolution—historical romance being her favourite genre of fiction. Check her Facebook page for news and updates:
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Information
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Epilogue
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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Information
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Epilogue
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Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Epilogue
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Title Page
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Dedication
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Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
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