It's the mid-1990s and Nick Redpath has some issues to resolve. Like why he is relentlessly drawn back to a circle of old friends and enemies — and an old love — in his seaside birthplace in north Essex. And why he won't let himself fall in love again. But first he must prove that he didn't murder his old flame, Geraldine Wyse... The ebook edition includes the standalone bonus story, "Yesterday's Dreams". Kaitlin Queen is the adult fiction pen-name of a best-selling children's author. Kaitlin also writes for national newspapers and websites. Born in Essex, she moved to Northumberland when she was ten and has lived there ever since. This is her first crime novel for an adult audience. Of her first venture into adult fiction, Kaitlin says: "I've wanted to move into adult fiction for a while, but I wanted to keep it distinct from my earlier work, hence all the cloak-and-dagger business with the pen-name. Taking on a new persona for this was surprisingly fun, freeing me up to write a very different kind of story: a love story, a crime puzzle, and a novel deeply embedded in the history of a place I love dearly. It also made me start thinking about approaching the publishing of the novel in new and different ways: why not publish it as an ebook original, through a writers' collective just like the new infinity plus imprint Keith kept telling me about? His persistence paid off, and the book is now available. It's strange to be starting a new writing career in such a radically different manner, and I'll watch with interest to see how my novel is received."

Excerpt from One More Unfortunate: A Farce, in One Act James. What shall I do; old Bumkins will be rav ing mad, should he happen to return before this letter is completed! He laid particular stress upon his in; junctions relative to it. 0 would that civilization and the refined conventionalities of polite. Society had been established without the aid of commerce! Would that all the give and take of business had never existed, but 1n the brains of enthusiastic luna tics; for, if that had been the case, I would not now be perched upon a three legged-stool, bothering my head about this stupid letter. (putting down his pen) What 1s the use I cannot write. It is all Georgina' s fault, for I cannot help thinking of her: - visions of her bright and blooming face rise before my mind's eye, and I can't dispel the image. 0, dear, I begin to know what it is to be in love. There is a piece of poetry that suits me exactly; let me see if I can remember it. I have it. Ah, love was never yet without The pang, the agony, the doubt, Which rends my healt with ceaseless sigh While day and night roll darkly by. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.