Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness

Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness
Sidney Sheldon

Tilly Bagshawe

Glamour and suspense in the bestselling Sidney Sheldon novel from the international superstar Tilly Bagshawe.Grace Brookstein is the beautiful, young, and naive wife of financial superstar, Leonard Brookstein.In 2009 the US stock market goes into a terrifying freefall, and the public want someone to blame.Oblivious and seemingly unscathed, Grace continues her charmed life, until the death of Lenny in a tragic ‘accident’ forces her to face reality. His financial affairs unravel, revealing expensive crimes, and now Grace is in the frame.Exposing a spiralling web of vicious lies and well-planned deceit, she soon puts her own life in danger.Grace is alone, angry, and desperate for revenge.

Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness

Tilly Bagshawe

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Ebook Edition © JUNE 2010 ISBN: 978-0-007-35238-8

Version: 2015-07-27

For Kerstin and Louis Sparr, with love.

Greed is right.Greed works.Greed clarifies, cuts through, and capturesthe essence of the evolutionary spirit.Greed, in all of its forms – greed for life, for money,for love, for knowledge – has marked theupward surge of mankind.

—Gordon Gekko, in Wall Street, 1987

Contents

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Title Page (#u6b4de920-805b-5bfb-9d16-b02c4652c29b)

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Epigraph (#u420a2958-9742-5b01-b6c9-cd59dd9c9248)

Prologue (#u532a3d86-c51c-5ba9-837e-cc50e297ea92)

BOOK ONE (#u5a176090-1f64-5719-bb36-d9098cbd50ea)

Chapter One (#u6f5b9d7d-4e2d-5d62-9dcd-2efb2daeaa65)

Chapter Two (#uc745bb0d-d7fd-57dd-a34d-937a13038fe0)

Chapter Three (#u1ef41a58-9854-53e8-94a8-782a6ba910ed)

Chapter Four (#ucbfcbc71-6843-57da-aff5-01f02f3ed423)

Chapter Five (#u60c245f9-37e6-51be-b37a-a9d2df73c030)

Chapter Six (#ubcf02e0e-03b2-5232-9d4e-2baea6152978)

Chapter Seven (#u8f87910e-afb0-5a5d-ba45-1a09e6c2fb71)

Chapter Eight (#udfd47743-96a0-585a-bbeb-b3f6eb7ff8c1)

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Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

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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)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)