Blurb:
When a tragic accident leaves celebrity mystery author Rebecca Wright’s dead body ashore by a lake, Olivia is the only one who knows who the killer is. According to her, she is the only one who can stop the investigating detective from finding out too.
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Eccentric detective Asher Jackson is the best in England, the hometown of the dead authoress. Rebecca’s grieving fans believe he’s the only one who can avenge her death which is being heavily speculated on as a murder by the rest of the world.
With Rebecca being the most reserved celebrity he’s ever investigated, Asher has a lot to dig through if he is to find out more about her life to know what caused it to end. While constantly being led astray by random clues, he must set his mind on one thing and he is hoping it is not the freelancing journalist he hired to please the press. Will he be able to solve this mystery, or has he met his match?
Prologue
Olivia
Olivia couldn’t think. It’s like her brain had stopped functioning 3 minutes ago, when she’d dragged her mother’s body to shore.
This was never supposed to happen. Rebecca was never supposed to die, not in her plan.
She tasted bile and forced herself to swallow. Her body felt so weird to be in, like escaping it would save her from what was to come. If only she could.
Olivia got up, her feet surprisingly holding under her. Her heart pounded in her chest, as she took large wary steps, before running towards the house.
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In a few thoughtless hours, Olivia had cleaned out every room that had seen her existence.
The only thing she couldn’t bring herself to look at, let alone touch, was Rebecca’s body. At the door of the lake house, as she looked back one last time with her suitcase in her hand, she found herself sobbing. But then, she opened the door, and the blast of wind that wrapped itself around her blocked out every other sense. Freedom. It tasted so bitter but from all the years she’d spent without it, her tongue must have mistaken it for sweet.
She ran into the forest, never looking back once, never thinking about the damage she’d caused. She had been selfish, but she was free.
Chapter 1: https://saragawde.com/chapter-1/