Copyright 2010 by Lee Nichols. All right reserved.
Prologue
I couldn’t see, couldn’t breathe. Strapped to a chair underwater, I was shivering and my lungs burned. A moment before I blacked out, the chair rose through the icy darkness and broke the water’s surface.
I gasped ad coughed, but the instant I caught my breath, he plunged me under again, brought to the verge of drowning over and over.
”Once more, Emma?” he asked. “Or will you answer me now?”
I longed to tell him everything, to end the fear ad stop the pain. Then the chair plunged under into the freezing water.

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Deception by Lee Nichols
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