Paris, France 1780

 

He was the sort of man who could enslave a woman with a single glance.

 

A glance such as the one he was presently giving to her.

 

Lynette Baillon watched the notorious Simon Quinn with similar shamelessness, admiring the raven blackness of his hair and the brilliant blue of his eyes.

 

Chapter 1

 

I pulled a heavy box, marked ‘Miscellaneous’, towards me. I peered inside, it was full of photo albums. There must have been ten of them, all overflowing with photos of our life together. I opened the first one. There was a photo of me and James on holidays in Greece. It was painful to look at, we were so happy back then. James was beaming at the camera. He was tanned and fit but I was white and covered in heat rash. How he didn’t dump me then and there is a mystery.

 

JIMMY SINCLAIR

 

Until the second Test between South Africa and England at Newlands in 1899, in

22 years of Test matches since the first between England and Australia in 1877,

no player from any country had scored a century and taken six wickets in an

innings in the same match.

 

The Newlands match started on 1 April. The English captain Lord Hawke

(who often batted at number eleven and did not bowl) won the toss and, he was

My nightmare started like this.

 

I was standing on a deserted street in some little beach town. It was the middle of the night. A storm was blowing. Wind and rain ripped at the palm trees along the side walk. Pink and yellow stucco buildings lined the street, their windows boarded up. A block away, past a line of hibiscus bushes, the ocean churned.

 

Florida, I thought. Though I wasn't sure how I knew that. I'd never been to Florida.