Kimberley Chambers - Kimberley Chambers 3-Book Butler Collection - The Trap, Payback, The Wronged

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Source ISBN: 9780007435043; 9780007435067; 9780007521753

Ebook Edition © October 2015 ISBN: 9780008160135

Version: 2015-09-04

Contents

Cover

Title Page KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS 3-BOOK BUTLER COLLECTION The Trap Payback The Wronged Kimberley Chambers

Copyright

The Trap KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS The Trap

Payback

The Wronged

Keep Reading

About the Author

Also by Kimberley Chambers

About the Publisher

Harper

An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk

Copyright © Kimberley Chambers 2013

Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2013

Cover photographs © Silas Manhood (girl); Stella de Will/Alamy (background)

Kimberley Chambers asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

Source ISBN: 9780007435036

Ebook Edition © February 2013 ISBN: 9780007435043

Version: 2015-09-04

In memory of all our brave soldiers who have lost their lives in action including my own grandfather “Gunner Thomas Henry Caunter”

If you trap the moment before it’s ripe,

The tears of repentance you certainly wipe.

But if once you let the ripe moment go,

You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

William Blake

Contents

Cover

Title Page KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS The Trap

Copyright Copyright Harper An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk Copyright © Kimberley Chambers 2013 Cover layout design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2013 Cover photographs © Silas Manhood (girl); Stella de Will/Alamy (background) Kimberley Chambers asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780007435036 Ebook Edition © February 2013 ISBN: 9780007435043 Version: 2015-09-04

Dedication Dedication In memory of all our brave soldiers who have lost their lives in action including my own grandfather “Gunner Thomas Henry Caunter”

Epigraph If you trap the moment before it’s ripe, The tears of repentance you certainly wipe. But if once you let the ripe moment go, You can never wipe off the tears of woe. William Blake

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Chapter Thirty-Six

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Chapter Forty

Chapter Forty-One

Chapter Forty-Two

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Unable to make himself heard above Sandie Shaw belting out ‘Long Live Love’, Donald Walker made his way over to the Wurlitzer jukebox and turned down the volume.

‘Don’t do that! You know I like Sandie,’ Mary Walker said, as though she knew the singer personally.

‘There’s somebody knocking at the door,’ Donald informed his wife.

Mary walked over to the door and unbolted it. She was greeted by a sturdy-looking woman standing there in a dark-grey overcoat. At a guess, Mary thought she was probably in her mid fifties, but it was hard to be sure because of the curlers and hairnet on her head. ‘Hello. Can I help you?’ Mary asked, politely.