If Tomorrow Comes

resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

Filled with a strange, unreasoning fire, Tracy moved past a giant magnolia tree towards the front door. She had been given her own key to the house when she was in the seventh grade and had carried it with her since, as a talisman, a reminder of the haven that would always be there waiting for her.

Never trust a Swiss with a missing index finger.’

For three months Jeff worked in a boiler room, selling phony oil stocks over the telephone.

‘She hasn’t been mean to Amy, has she? Hit her, yelled at her?’

‘Who holds the stakes?’ There was a sharp note of suspicion in his voice. ‘The ship’s purser.’