Lucy Clarke - You Let Me In

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‘The very definition of a page-turner’ Clare MackintoshNothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house . . .I’M IN YOUR HOUSEThere’s a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows.I’M IN YOUR HEADMaybe it’s all in Elle’s mind? She’s a writer – her imagination, after all, is her strength. And yet every threat seems personal. As if someone has discovered the secrets that keep her awake at night.AND NOW I KNOW YOUR SECRETAs fear and paranoia close in, Elle’s own home becomes a prison. Someone is unlocking her past – and she’s given them the key…Spine-tingling, chilling, and utterly compulsive, this is the thriller that EVERYONE is talking about right now – ‘Brilliantly creepy’ Sabine Durrant‘Super-believable, super creepy and super-readable (if terrifying!)’ Fabulous‘Clever, tense, twisty’ C.L. Taylor‘A tour de force’ Gillian McCallister‘Riveting, atmospheric and unsettling’ Heat‘Brilliant and chilling’ Karen Hamilton

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I’ll write, I decide.

The lamp casts a white spotlight across my desk. Behind me, the rest of the writing room is in darkness.

I take a breath. Hover the mouse over the Word document labelled BOOK 2 .

It’s coming along well, I’d told Jane.

Five and a half weeks until my deadline.

Downstairs, I picture the unopened bills piled on the bureau, the mortgage repayment not met this month. Everything is riding on this book, waiting on me. I think of Booklover101’s latest post on my Facebook page. A gif of a woman sat at a typewriter, face possessed, keys bashing up and down. Hope you’re working hard. Remember, your no.1 fan is waiting картинка 3 .

I click.

The document opens onto the title page:

BOOK 2

By Elle Fielding

And below it, nothing.

Whiteness.

All that blank space eyeballing me, waiting to be filled. It’s like staring into a black hole – only white – as if I could be sucked into it, lose myself in all that emptiness.

Beneath the desk, my foot jigs up and down.

I remember how excited, how inspired, I felt before I was published. Back then I was writing without expectation or deadlines – writing just for myself. There was such freedom in it. I didn’t realise it at the time when I was yearning to get published, but it was a beautiful way to write – out in the wilderness, without a contract.

Now thousands of readers are eagerly awaiting my next novel, a publishing house is primed and ready, the security of my home teeters on it. I rub the skin below my collarbone, pressure tightening in my chest.

This isn’t how I imagined it to be.

None of this is how it was meant to be.

‘It’s going to be fine,’ I say aloud to the empty room, my voice unnaturally bright. ‘You can do this. You just need to focus, stop doubting yourself. Don’t overthink this, Elle. Just write.’

Team talk to self.

Jesus Christ, all this silence. No wonder I’m talking to myself. I play some music, turning it up loud. Then I flick on the large overhead light, too. There, that’s better, I think, pacing.

If someone is in the bay tonight, they could look straight into this room, see me up here, alone.

I pick up the paperweight from my desk, pressing my thumb into the jagged crack. I can almost feel the sharp point of the missing shard as if it’s still embedded in my heel.

That feeling, the hot breath of fear.

I lower myself into my chair, placing the paperweight beside me. The lamplight bounces off it, throwing my image back at me, distorted by the curvature of the glass.

I know the story I need to write. I think I’ve known it all along.

I’ve got it all here, in me. I see that now. My characters are already alive, living under my skin. I just need to get them on the page, pin them there.

So I picture them, I tune into their voices, I invite them in.

And then I start to type.

2003 2003 7. Elle Previously 8. Elle Previously 9. Elle 2003 10. Elle 11. Elle 2004 12. Elle Previously 13. Elle Previously 14. Elle Previously 15. Elle 2003 16. Elle Previously 17. Elle Previously 18. Elle 2004 19. Elle 20. Elle 2004 21. Elle Previously 22. Elle 2004 23. Elle 24. Elle Previously 25. Elle 2004 26. Elle 2004 27. Elle 28. Elle 29. Elle 2004 30. Elle 31. Elle 32. Elle 33. Elle 34. Elle 35. Elle 36. Elle 37. Elle Epilogue: One year later Read on to enjoy an exclusive extract of The Castaways Acknowledgements If you enjoyed You Let Me In , don’t miss these other breathtakingly gripping novels from Lucy Clarke About the Author Also by Lucy Clarke About the Publisher

Elle’s second mistake came later.

Glancing up, she checked the librarian was still focused on unstacking her book trolley, then continued deconstructing a Crunchie, biting off the top layer of chocolate before sucking the honeycomb until it turned sticky in her mouth.

Her housemate, Louise, who was sitting opposite, was whispering her plan to spray-paint a roll of bubble wrap and fashion it into a dress for that evening’s space-age party.

Louise halted mid-sentence, her eyes fixing on something beyond Elle’s shoulder.

‘There he goes.’

Elle removed the Crunchie from her mouth, twisting in her seat.

Luke Linden was crossing the library with long, easy strides, a newspaper tucked underarm. A ripple of attention followed him. At a table to the left of theirs, a group of students waved him over. He paused mid-step to listen to a question, nodding lightly. He delivered his answer into the hushed silence and then, a moment later, continued.

As he passed the table where Elle sat, his gaze lifted, met hers. He smiled, his mouth curling to one side. Then he moved on, disappeared.

Placing her elbows on the table, Louise whispered, ‘I’m going to have to do an MA, just so I can look at him for one more year.’

‘Take a photo. Less debt.’

‘You can’t tell me you’re not in love with him.’

‘I’m not in love with him.’

‘But you’d sleep with him in a heartbeat, yes?’

She shrugged.

‘You would, of course you would!’

Later, Elle would wonder about what she’d said next. Whether she’d meant it, how it changed things. She would want to go back, edit the memory. Rewrite that tiny detail in her story, because – although it was only a sentence – it would become pivotal.

It would become the hook from which she would hang.

But in that moment, Elle was just a teenage girl, hair to her waist, skin unlined, still bright with the promise of how her life was about to flower.

Elle held Louise’s gaze as she finally answered, ‘Yes, I absolutely would. In fact,’ she added, her mouth spreading into a grin, ‘maybe I will .’

7 7. Elle Previously 8. Elle Previously 9. Elle 2003 10. Elle 11. Elle 2004 12. Elle Previously 13. Elle Previously 14. Elle Previously 15. Elle 2003 16. Elle Previously 17. Elle Previously 18. Elle 2004 19. Elle 20. Elle 2004 21. Elle Previously 22. Elle 2004 23. Elle 24. Elle Previously 25. Elle 2004 26. Elle 2004 27. Elle 28. Elle 29. Elle 2004 30. Elle 31. Elle 32. Elle 33. Elle 34. Elle 35. Elle 36. Elle 37. Elle Epilogue: One year later Read on to enjoy an exclusive extract of The Castaways Acknowledgements If you enjoyed You Let Me In , don’t miss these other breathtakingly gripping novels from Lucy Clarke About the Author Also by Lucy Clarke About the Publisher

Elle 7. Elle Previously 8. Elle Previously 9. Elle 2003 10. Elle 11. Elle 2004 12. Elle Previously 13. Elle Previously 14. Elle Previously 15. Elle 2003 16. Elle Previously 17. Elle Previously 18. Elle 2004 19. Elle 20. Elle 2004 21. Elle Previously 22. Elle 2004 23. Elle 24. Elle Previously 25. Elle 2004 26. Elle 2004 27. Elle 28. Elle 29. Elle 2004 30. Elle 31. Elle 32. Elle 33. Elle 34. Elle 35. Elle 36. Elle 37. Elle Epilogue: One year later Read on to enjoy an exclusive extract of The Castaways Acknowledgements If you enjoyed You Let Me In , don’t miss these other breathtakingly gripping novels from Lucy Clarke About the Author Also by Lucy Clarke About the Publisher

In the black-velvet darkness of four a.m., I twist onto my side. The sheets are a hot tangle around my waist. The snake in my brain is alive, wide awake.

I listen to the house. I want there to be noises of other people – the purring snore of a child asleep in the nursery, the cast-iron creak of the log burner opening, a hunk of wood fed to the flames.

But it is just me. My breathing. My heartbeat, rapid.

And then my thoughts. They are not silent, but loud and rowdy, like a bad drunk. They seem to echo in my mind, filling my head with their noise and spite.

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