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Kubica Mary
Книга "Pretty Baby"
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A chance encounter sparks an unrelenting web of lies in this ...
A chance encounter sparks an unrelenting web of lies in this stunn...
MARY KUBICA holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University in Oxford, Oh...
Also by Mary Kubica THE GOOD GIRL ...
Mary Kubica ...
For the ones I’ve lost ...
Contents Back Cover Text About the Author Boo...
HEIDI The first time I see her, she is standing at the Fullerton...
CHRIS “How was your day?” Heidi asks when I walk in the front do...
HEIDI When I wake in the morning, Chris is gone. Beside me, on t...
CHRIS We’re sitting in a hotel room: Henry, Tom, Cassidy and me....
HEIDI I wake up with an image of Cassidy Knudsen in my mind, and...
WILLOW “Heidi was the first one in a long time who was nice to m...
HEIDI The girl stands there, on Halstead, before the door of the...
WILLOW My momma was the most beautiful lady in the world. Long b...
CHRIS Heidi has this need to make everything right. She recycles...
HEIDI I don’t know if she drinks coffee or not, but I bring her ...
CHRIS The front door opens and there they stand like two drowned...
WILLOW My memories of Momma are slim to none these days. There a...
HEIDI We bathe Ruby first. I draw the water so that it is tepid:...
WILLOW Momma used to say she had a sister, Annabeth, but if such...
HEIDI I can’t stop thinking about it, about the blood. As ...
WILLOW Matthew told me once that what his father intended to do,...
CHRIS I watch Heidi sauté the chicken, carrots, peas and celery ...
WILLOW Joseph was a professor of religion at the community colle...
CHRIS I finish my breakfast and head in for a shower, making sur...
HEIDI “What is that woman doing answering your phone?” I growl i...
WILLOW “What was Miriam’s medical condition? Was she schizophren...
HEIDI In the morning, Zoe—reluctantly—offers up another outfit f...
CHRIS One night turns into two. Then two nights turn into ...
HEIDI Willow settles into our home slowly, like the natural weat...
CHRIS I’m taking the steps, two at a time, down to the “L” platf...
WILLOW Louise Flores wants to know more about Matthew and Isaac,...
HEIDI I slip from bed once Chris leaves, quiet so as not to wake...
WILLOW Ms. Flores asks to know more about Matthew. Just talking ...
HEIDI In the morning, there’s a knock at the door. Zoe is ...
WILLOW “I’d never been out of the house,” I say. “That was the v...
HEIDI We’re getting ready for bed when Willow steps into my bedr...
WILLOW In here we wear orange jumpsuits, the word juvenile stitc...
CHRIS That baby is whimpering in the background when I finally g...
HEIDI Zoe goes to bed early, riddled with a headache and stuffy ...
WILLOW At some point when I wasn’t paying attention, I turned si...
CHRIS I pass through Chicago on the way to Denver for a meeting ...
WILLOW On one of her prearranged visits, Ms. Adler arrived with ...
HEIDI I spend the night in the rocking chair, hardly able to tak...
WILLOW I started seeing more and more of Matthew. Most often we ...
CHRIS I’m in my Denver hotel room, washing up for bed, dead tire...
WILLOW What I tell Ms. Flores is that Joseph brought me meals tw...
HEIDI In the early afternoon when Ruby is asleep, I walk through...
WILLOW Of course everything I told Louise Flores was not the tru...
HEIDI Beside me, on the bed, lay a set of matching underwear, la...
WILLOW It was late. The house was silent. Joseph had come and go...
HEIDI Graham stands three feet away in the darkened room, watchi...
WILLOW Matthew had given me near everything I could possibly nee...
HEIDI I press my baby into me and sink into the rocking chair, v...
WILLOW Louise Flores beckons me again. A guard arrives at the ce...
CHRIS I oversleep. When I finally do wake up, the hangover...
WILLOW The bus ride to Chicago was long. Over twenty-three hours...
HEIDI She’ll have nothing to do with the bottle. I try aga...
WILLOW That bus dropped us off in Chicago, the baby and me. Ruby...
CHRIS I’m utterly speechless, my mouth hanging open, my tongue u...
HEIDI I don’t know what happens first. They take my blood....
WILLOW It wasn’t long before the police found me, over on Michig...
EVE BEFORE...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Writing can be a solitary task. We sit behind a computer screen ...
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ISBN: 978-1-474-03087-8 PRETTY BABY © 2015 Mary Kubica Published in ...
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