Up Close
Henriette Gyland
Nov 2012 · Choc Lit Limited
Ebook
356
Pages
About this ebook
A woman’s return to rural England stirs up family secrets—and a chance at love—in this award-winning, “chilling [and] gripping” novel of romantic suspense (Christina Courtenay, award-winning author of Highland Storms).
When Dr. Lia Thompson’s grandmother Ivy dies unexpectedly, Lia reluctantly returns to Norfolk to handle her estate. It’s an uneasy homecoming, raising old fears and new suspicions. When Lia discovers her grandmother was a town gossip with plenty of secrets, she wonders if there was more to her death than meets the eye.
In her search for the truth, Lia finds an ally in ex-navy man Aidan Morrell—who also happens to be her high school crush. But the emotionally scarred Aidan has secrets of his own, and his motives for helping Lia may be hidden in a very dark place. In a world of increasing danger, is Aidan someone Lia can trust to help retrace her grandmother’s final steps? Or is Lia slowly being edged toward the same chilling fate?
“A mystery as chilling as the wild Norfolk setting, with a passionate romance. A gripping read.” —Christina Courtenay
When Dr. Lia Thompson’s grandmother Ivy dies unexpectedly, Lia reluctantly returns to Norfolk to handle her estate. It’s an uneasy homecoming, raising old fears and new suspicions. When Lia discovers her grandmother was a town gossip with plenty of secrets, she wonders if there was more to her death than meets the eye.
In her search for the truth, Lia finds an ally in ex-navy man Aidan Morrell—who also happens to be her high school crush. But the emotionally scarred Aidan has secrets of his own, and his motives for helping Lia may be hidden in a very dark place. In a world of increasing danger, is Aidan someone Lia can trust to help retrace her grandmother’s final steps? Or is Lia slowly being edged toward the same chilling fate?
“A mystery as chilling as the wild Norfolk setting, with a passionate romance. A gripping read.” —Christina Courtenay
About the author
Henriette Gyland lives in London but grew up in Northern Denmark and moved to England after she graduated from the University of Copenhagen. She wrote her first book when she was ten, a tale of two orphan sisters running away to Egypt, fortunately to be adopted by a perfect family they meet on the Orient Express. Between that first literary exploit and now, she has worked in the Danish civil service, for a travel agent, a consultancy company, in banking, hospital administration, and for a county court before setting herself up as a freelance translator and linguist. Expecting her first child and feeling bored, she picked up the pen again, and when a writer friend encouraged her to join the Romantic Novelists’ Association, she began to pursue her writing in earnest. Gyland’s debut, Up Close, won the New Talent Award in 2011 from the Festival of Romance and a Commended from the Yeovil Literary Prize.
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