The Ruthless. Peter Newman
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2019
Copyright © Peter Newman 2019
Cover illustration © Chris Tulloch McCabe 2019
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Source ISBN: 9780008229030
Ebook Edition © March 2019 ISBN: 9780008229054
Version: 2019-05-15
To Andrew For being there to catch me
Contents
She had been elsewhere, between lives, formless and timeless. There was a sense of hanging above angry water, of shapes sliding under the surface, of shadows rising to feed, hungry, yet unable to break through to where she hung. She both feared the shapes and was drawn to them. But when she tried to go down to them, something held her up: unbreakable