The importance of family, the loyalty brought by friendship, and kindness to others play a big part in this story. Drawing straws, Travis gets the short straw, and the bride. Her aunt and uncle insists Mere marry one of the Archer brothers. But her kindness backfires when she spends the night at the Archer homestead without a chaperone. Mere’s erstwhile fiancé plans to burn out the Archers, and she notifies them of the plot. Travis Archer promised his dying father he would care for his three younger brothers and protect the land and stay away from strangers. Now that she is an orphan, Mere’s greedy aunt and uncle want her to marry someone she does not like. Meredith (Mere) Hayes gave her heart to Travis Archer when she was 10 years old, when he rescued her from an animal trap.
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Neville's economical yet nuanced prose style drives the plot forward at breakneck speed while building complex characters with the deftness that defines a thriller writer at the top of his game." - Sunday Independent Suspended from the force and hounded by DCI Serena Flanagan, the toughest cop he’s ever faced, Lennon must unlock the secrets of a dead man’s terrifying journal. Horrified, Rea wants to go straight to the police but when her family intervene, fearing the damage it could cause to her father’s political career, Rea turns to the only person she can think of: DI Jack Lennon. Inside its pages are locks of hair, fingernails: a catalogue of victims. When Rea finally forces it open she discovers inside a chair, a table – and a leather-bound book. It doesn’t take her long to clear out the dead man’s remaining possessions, but one room remains stubbornly locked. Rea Carlisle has inherited a house from an uncle she never knew. 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