Mistress of Alderley
A Novel of Suspense
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Chapter One: Rural Idyll
When Caroline came in from the garden, she was pleased to find that Mrs. Hogbin had gone upstairs to do the bathrooms. Caroline had had cleaning ladies in the past whom she'd regarded as friends, whom she'd been more pleased to sit down with over a cup of tea and a scone than any of the theatrical people she called her friends. Mrs. Hogbin wasn't one of them.
She came through to the spacious hallway and poked her head around the door of what had once been a box room.
"Tea, Alex? Coffee, Coke, milk?"
"No thanks," her son said, hardly looking up from the screen that mesmerized him. "Mum, I need a whole lot of new software."
"Then you're going to have to need for quite a while."
"Oh Mum! I've got to have it! I bet Marius buys all the latest stuff for Guy."
That was a line Caroline always felt she had to nip in the bud. Guy was not the spoiled child of a rich man: he was not given lavish pocket money, or bought everything his young mind could covet.
"Maybe, and maybe not. Anyway, Guy is nearly twenty, he's Marius's son, and he's about to start a ... read full excerpt from The Mistress of Alderley: A Novel of Suspense ebook
