On Your Doorstep: Perfect for those who loved Close to Home

On Your Doorstep: Perfect for those who loved Close to Home
Laura Elliot

Previously published as Stolen ChildIt's every mother's worst nightmare . . .Carla Kelly wakes to find her two-day-old baby’s cot cold and empty.Her daughter has been taken.Desperate and at breaking point, Carla launches a fierce national campaign to find her baby – but the trail runs cold.Then she receives an intriguing letter, offering support from a surprising quarter. But it leads Carla into a chain of events that exposes shocking secrets from her past. Someone is out to seek their cold-blooded revenge.And it will bring Carla unknowingly closer to the stolen daughter she has sworn she will do anything to get back …

On Your Doorstep

Laura Elliot

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First published as ‘Stolen Child’ in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2010

This ebook edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2018

Copyright © June Considine 2010

Cover design © Alison Groom 2018

Cover photograph © Louise MacGregor 2018

June Considine asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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Source ISBN: 9781847561466

Ebook Edition © July 2010 ISBN: 9780007367986

Version: 2018-11-05

Dedication (#ulink_4e6803ad-ee1b-50dd-997b-006f2d8f6bb7)

With love to my husband, Sean Considine.

Thank you for your invaluable support throughout the writing of On Your Doorstep.

Epigraph (#ulink_ace9bc5d-7d76-5f1a-a49b-c65d56b5fcb3)

Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a faery, hand in hand,

For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

From ‘The Stolen Child’ by William Butler Yeats.

Contents

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Title Page (#u1e4d55c6-fb2d-5d87-91ba-f3f38d1fad8b)

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Dedication (#u34d20580-32ff-5c85-a7d2-76478deb3e42)

Epigraph (#ue6bdf58e-5a01-5085-bfd1-b424c4762bd3)

Chapter One (#u4c51afe5-e516-5fd2-95b5-d0086c579f3f)

Chapter Two (#u2063a0a9-7bf8-5de3-b337-637d1d3cd589)

Chapter Three (#u5cff54c6-0266-5525-b4fa-1a5e81066fdf)

Chapter Four (#u17b06c89-181f-5c26-853c-cc88c4b0e51b)

Chapter Five (#u6bfe4f63-759c-5e8d-a7d9-9f6c37122e00)

Chapter Six (#u7401d26c-1c56-513c-a969-7dde76c3e60b)

Chapter Seven (#u757876c3-db3d-5562-a8c9-1aa176002f6a)

Chapter Eight (#u7f567945-6f8f-57bf-9331-337ebc44c8a9)

Chapter Nine (#u52bacd41-c4cf-5112-8ee0-6bb5aa8853a3)

Chapter Ten (#uc4760264-ad98-5656-98d9-5f917d4edb69)

Chapter Eleven (#uf79d045c-a097-5cb2-8ee7-dac71420dab4)

Chapter Twelve (#u88ebdd96-2de7-5895-b1ae-aaa5a2c1d5db)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)