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The Skeleton In The Closet. [incomplete]
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Last published Sat, Jun 10, 2017
Amy and her mother move to South Africa from London. A perfect place where no one knows them and they can start their lives afresh by putting their traumatic pasts behind them. When Amy is finally released from her prison, her home, and decides to take up the offer for going for the first time on a dream holiday, why does the fear still haunt her? What is she hiding? Will her past catch up with her future? Has she really moved on?
These are questions she asks herself constantly, and before she can find the answer to her questions, a shocking murder takes place on the cruise in the middle of the ocean. The heartless murderer is amongst her and she has no where to escape. After all, where can she run?
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