Til Death Take Me ~ON HOLD~
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Last published Sun, Nov 17, 2013
If someone ever asked me how I thought I would die, I would have hedged round the question, maybe smirked at them, because the thought of death in my twenties just seemed too early to dwell on.
I was young and therefore believed I'd have more time in this world before death came knocking on my door. As it turns out, death coming a-knocking isn't too far from reality. Well, mine at least.
Evelyn Lennox's busy, work-orientated life is about to break at the seams when she receives a phone call from an eccentric, wealthy, new client, Nathaniel Argent, asking her to design the living room of his large manor house. She accepts the offer, not realizing the full extent of the deal, nor understanding why Mr Argent's son, Matthew, looks at her so oddly and avoids her like the plague. There are secrets in this house; secrets that only a few months before, she had been so close to discovering. Only she can't remember.
The truth will out.
Evelyn is about to come face to face with death. Literally.
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