Girl Alone: Part 3 of 3: Joss came home from school to discover her father’s suicide. Angry and hurting, she’s out of control.

Girl Alone: Part 3 of 3: Joss came home from school to discover her father’s suicide. Angry and hurting, she’s out of control.
Cathy Glass

Girl Alone can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3 (Chapters 18-26 of 26).You can read Part 3 on release of the full-length eBook and paperback.Aged nine Joss came home from school to discover her father's suicide. She's never gotten over it.This is the true story of Joss, 13 who is angry and out of control. At the age of nine, Joss finds her father’s dead body. He has committed suicide. Then her mother remarries and Joss bitterly resents her step-father who abuses her mentally and physically.Cathy takes Joss under her wing but will she ever be able to get through to the warm-hearted girl she sees glimpses of underneath the vehement outbreaks of anger that dominate the house, and will Cathy be able to build up Joss’s trust so she can learn the full truth of the terrible situation?

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Contents

Cover (#uab67a0c2-1aa8-5dce-9fc1-5f5055cd0de2)

Title Page (#ulink_54034345-5a3d-529f-b169-4d5b99532730)

Copyright (#ulink_af474a4a-8c91-5334-829d-c108123d9d26)

Chapter Eighteen: Lying? (#ulink_ef968e00-1fca-54b3-8893-b9e6cf7a7179)

Chapter Nineteen: Alone (#ulink_064ccab8-c306-5748-b6d8-4b179429b8ac)

Chapter Twenty: Monday (#ulink_7b4fd4c2-9f09-5bf0-941d-325f09a22744)

Chapter Twenty-One: Waiting for News (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two: Missing (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three: The Endless Wait (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four: Unbelievable (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Five: And She Wept (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Six: Bittersweet (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Suggested topics for reading-group discussion (#litres_trial_promo)

Exclusive sample chapter (#litres_trial_promo)

Cathy Glass (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter Eighteen

Lying? (#u60316be2-a3e5-5c2c-b39c-4cd2e6f48d77)

The clock on the mantelpiece showed it was 4 a.m. I quickly switched off the television and went down the hall to open the front door. Joss and her mother stood side by side, pale and drawn.

‘Come in,’ I said, opening the door wider.

‘I’m going to bed,’ Joss said as they stepped in. She was wearing the change of clothes we’d taken with us.