by Sharon Maas
Last, but not least, I’d like to thank Oliver Rhodes, who, by creating the publishing phenomenon that is Bookouture gave my faltering writing career a new lease of life back in 2014. Her Darkest Hour is my tenth Bookouture novel! I couldn’t be more delighted to have reached this milestone, but I couldn’t have done it without you, my readers. Just knowing you are out there, reading words I’ve written, entering worlds I’ve created, is the best encouragement ever, and hopefully there’ll be many more books to come. So once again – thank you!
To my children, Saskia and Miro, the biggest thank-you of all, for standing by your mother through all the years and your good humour at her sometimes scatty and absent-minded behaviour. I really do, sometimes, live in another world, but all for a good cause!
We – both author and publisher – hope you enjoyed this book. We believe that you can become a reader at any time in your life, but we’d love your help to give the next generation a head start.
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Did you know that 9% of children don’t have a book of their own in their home, rising to 13% in disadvantaged families*? We’d like to try to change that by asking you to consider the role you could play in helping to build readers of the future.
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We’d love you to get involved by sharing, borrowing, reading, buying or talking about a book with a child in your life and spreading the love of reading. We want to make sure the next generation continues to have access to books, wherever they come from.
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Click HERE for a list of brilliant books to share with a child – as voted by Goodreads readers.
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Thank you.
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*As reported by the National Literacy Trust
Published by Bookouture in 2020
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An imprint of Storyfire Ltd.
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Copyright © Sharon Maas, 2020
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Sharon Maas has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work.
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers.
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eBook ISBN: 978-1-83888-663-9
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places and events other than those clearly in the public domain, are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
