The Trap

The Trap
Kimberley Chambers

The heir to Martina Cole’s crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery.The Butlers are the kings of the East End.Vinny and Roy Butler are the apple of their mum’s eye and although Queenie knows they can play dirty, when it comes to family they look after business and make her proud. Nothing and no one can bring the Butler’s down.But Vinny seems to have crossed the wrong person and his cards are marked. And with the brothers joined at the hip, Roy may just be in the firing line too…One bloody night sets Vinny on the path of desperate vengeance, but will the Butlers emerge stronger than ever, or is the East End code of honour as good as dead?The first book in the Butler family saga. The series continues with Payback, The Wronged and Tainted Love.

KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS

The Trap

Copyright

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Copyright © Kimberley Chambers 2013

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Source ISBN: 9780007435036

Ebook Edition © February 2013 ISBN: 9780007435043

Version: 2016-11-11

In memory of all our brave soldiers who have lost their lives in action including my own grandfather “Gunner Thomas Henry Caunter”

If you trap the moment before it’s ripe,

The tears of repentance you certainly wipe.

But if once you let the ripe moment go,

You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

William Blake

Contents

Title Page (#u01374725-e655-57b3-91d7-f88ca625896b)

Copyright (#u9893eeb7-14df-50c1-8228-9a93e0c22dee)

Dedication (#uc2db9c89-7107-5bad-9863-46ca7c7a0920)

Epigraph (#udd7e5743-8091-5bb3-ac01-c0988b2e436a)

Star in the Trap Series! (#uc7d79224-0249-56b8-ab48-18881dbb221d)

Prologue (#u229ba46f-92ea-5db4-8fe0-cb73d04436bb)

Chapter One (#u5e89318f-c868-54de-acfe-4e591f3ec2a5)

Chapter Two (#u297b7bbc-9df7-5046-82f8-b7808bdae909)

Chapter Three (#uefa4018c-a1fb-5fbd-b953-ee39645d6df8)

Chapter Four (#u3e58fec1-bc6a-5e9a-9fb6-2971c9a929d9)

Chapter Five (#u6bc4d7a4-f022-5d73-be9a-3c7a9d76a19a)

Chapter Six (#u2093b6bf-f52e-5d60-aa81-536e5e9166ac)

Chapter Seven (#u6db82be7-9e24-511f-a581-5b54d2852f90)

Chapter Eight (#ueb2bbb2f-0355-505c-b8dd-e5e556ad4ac3)

Chapter Nine (#u7467495e-2ed5-5944-8d97-d278f81c6f3e)

Chapter Ten (#u31b5be82-c696-5604-a476-70e49a72e0eb)

Chapter Eleven (#u31bb1ade-7627-5946-9371-3917c9da398e)

Chapter Twelve (#u9ff61f94-8954-5fd2-9fbb-8b973826ad80)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)