Escape to Darling Cove


 Contents
 
 Cover
 Title Page
 Map of Darling Cove
 Dedication
 Part One: New Horizons
 
 Chapter One: Logan
 Chapter Two: Eve
 Chapter Three: Logan
 Chapter Four: Eve
 Chapter Five: Logan
 Chapter Six: Eve
 Chapter Seven: Logan
 Chapter Eight: Eve
 
 Part Two: Hidden Depths
 
 Chapter Nine: Eve
 Chapter Ten: Logan
 Chapter Eleven: Eve
 Chapter Twelve: Logan
 Chapter Thirteen: Eve
 Chapter Fourteen: Logan
 Chapter Fifteen: Eve
 
 Part Three: Stormy Seas
 
 Chapter Sixteen: Logan
 Chapter Seventeen: Eve
 Chapter Eighteen: Logan
 Chapter Nineteen: Eve
 Chapter Twenty: Logan
 Chapter Twenty-One: Eve
 
 Part Four: Christmas Wishes
 
 Chapter Twenty-Two: Logan
 Chapter Twenty-Three: Eve
 Chapter Twenty-Four: Logan
 Chapter Twenty-Five: Eve
 Chapter Twenty-Six: Logan
 Chapter Twenty-Seven: Eve
 
 Acknowledgements
 About the Author
 Copyright
 
 
 
 Guide
 
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 Title Page
 Map of Darling Cove
 Dedication
 Acknowledgments
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 PART ONE New Horizons
 
 
 Chapter One Logan
 It looked like the road to the edge of the world.
 Logan Silk leaned against the bonnet of the second-hand Toyota Hilux he’d bought especially for this trip and considered the view before him. Tide-rippled sands stretched towards the gunmetal grey horizon, split by the narrow causeway – a black ribbon of road flecked with green algae and the occasional flash of silvery sea water left behind by the tide. Dotted on either side were algae-strewn rocks and boulders that might have been carelessly abandoned by the North Sea, or placed there with more precision by the engineers who had constructed the road decades ago. The tarmac curved away from where Logan stood, cutting across the vast expanse of dull brown sand towards the distant smudged outline of Ennisfarne, a mile and a half from the Northumberland coast. Gusts of salt-laden wind whipped strands of dark hair across Logan’s face as he contemplated the road, and his breath misted on the freezing February air. No cars came towards him and there were none behind. Apart from the birds circling overhead, he was entirely alone.
 The light wasn’t bad, Logan observed with professional detachment, in spite of the wintry sky. A few determined sunbeams had broken through to illuminate a patch of far-off sea – crepuscular rays that set the clouds ablaze with gold – and Logan was tempted to unpack one of his cameras. It was the promise of Northumberland’s extraordinary light that had lured the artist Turner to the neighbouring island of Lindisfarne centuries earlier, and it was what brought Logan to Ennisfarne now. That and the anticipation of solitude; being cut off from the mainland for most of the day, at least by road, was appealing. And since the island was home to only two hundred and fifty people, he was very much hoping to keep himself to himself during the coming months. But for now, his cameras would remain in the car. Instead,