\n Eva is Waiting<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Author: <\/b>Romola Farr<\/span><\/p>\n Publication Date: <\/b>February 14th, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n Genre: <\/b>Adult Historical Thriller<\/span><\/p>\n Book Description:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Following the death of her mother, Lily is sent to a remote girls\u2019 boarding school, tearing her away from all the excitement of London in the Swingin\u2019 Sixties. Bereft, she develops a relationship with Rainer, the husband of Sylvia, the headmistress.<\/span><\/p>\n One day, Bella, the school Collie, goes missing whilst playing on the shore below sheer cliffs. Despite a rising tide, Lily is determined to find the beautiful dog and discovers her trapped between rocks in a cave. Deepening water swirls around them as her fingertips dig into the sand and touch the smooth surface of what she believes to be an animal skull. From that moment on, she is haunted by a young girl pleading for help.<\/span><\/p>\n Lily speaks to her headmistress and learns that eleven years previously a pupil went missing. Eva was a refugee from Hungary, and it was assumed by the police that she had run away.<\/span><\/p>\n Forced to stay on at school during the Christmas holiday, Lily is caught between those who know what really happened and wish to silence her, and her determination to end Eva\u2019s wait for justice.<\/span><\/p>\n But is history about to repeat itself?<\/span><\/p>\n Buy Links:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n EXCERPT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Don\u2019t you have a heater?\u2019 Lily was lying naked on a worn chaise longue with a gossamer thin veil artistically draped over her.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Heat burns out creativity.\u2019 Rainer was sitting on a stool with a large pad on his lap, drawing Lily with a stub of pencil.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Am I to freeze my nether regions just for a sketch? I thought I deserved oils.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018First, liebling, I make sure I have all the correct proportions in pencil before I commence with charcoal, unless you want to have gro\u00dfe Br\u00fcste und fette Oberschenkel.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018I think I\u2019ve been inoculated against that!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018You are very funny.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018My mother told me I have a queer sense of humour.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Rainer got up from the stool and placed the pad and pencil on the seat. He looked at Lily and she felt a surge. Since that amazing night, she had acted upon many urges alone in her room, then had knelt by her bed to pray for forgiveness. In her former school, Miss Rooney had made it clear that self-gratification was against the teachings of Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018As for adultery and fornication,\u2019 Miss Rooney had said, \u2018they are an abomination and will send you straight to hell.\u2019 She had slammed the palm of her hand down on her thigh as she paced about and eyed the young girls seated before her. Young girls who had yet to experience their first period and were still reading books by Enid Blyton.<\/span><\/p>\n Well, Lily thought, hell it shall be because she was hooked on the greatest drug of all and despite her belief in God, she would rather face His wrath than become a dried-up old prune like Miss Rooney.<\/span><\/p>\n Rainer knelt in front of her, and she felt his warm tobacco breath\u2026 so intoxicating. \u2018You are beautiful,\u2019 he said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Make love to me,\u2019 she whispered.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018An artist sleeping with his model is a clich\u00e9, is it not?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Call it the Spark effect.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018I don\u2019t understand.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Muriel Spark\u2026 she wrote The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It\u2019s a novella set in a girls\u2019 school. If they ever make it into a film, I want to play Sandy.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Sandy?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018She\u2019s the smartest girl in the Brodie set and has an affair with the art master.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Who is very handsome, no doubt.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Of course. Unfortunately, Sandy ends their affair and becomes a Roman Catholic nun.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n He chuckled. \u2018Is that your destiny?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n She shrugged. \u2018Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be.\u2019 She let the veil slip, exposing a youthful breast. \u2018My fate is in your hands.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n He repositioned the veil and stepped back.<\/span><\/p>\n She forced a smile. \u2018So, it\u2019s a nunnery for me then?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n He looked at her. \u2018I cannot imagine loving anyone more than I do you.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018What about Sylvia?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018She saved my life and has given me a future out of reach of the Russian bear.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Lily wrapped the gauze tightly around her and stood. \u2018I\u2019d better go.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Please stay. I owe Sylvia, but I want you.\u2019 He pushed her gently down onto the chaise longue and knelt before her.<\/span><\/p>\n About the Author<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Romola Farr first trod the boards on the West End stage aged sixteen and continued to work for the next eighteen years in theatre, TV and film – and as a photographic model. A trip to Hollywood led to the sale of her first screenplay and a successful change of direction as a screenwriter and playwright. Bridge To Eternity was her debut novel, and Breaking through the Shadows and Where the Water Flows are standalone sequels. All are set in the fictional town of Hawksmead.<\/span><\/p>\n Romola Farr is a nom de plume.<\/span><\/p>\n Author Links:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n ***GIVEAWAY***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n a Rafflecopter giveaway<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014
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