Текст книги "Harum Scarum"
Автор книги: Felicity Young
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Katy Enigma was always of the belief that when one door closed, another one opened. The Monster had taken away her magic powers and they had taken away her secret weapon. They had also closed down her HQ where the dragon lived and the water lilies bloomed.
But no one could take away her words.
She packed her father’s abandoned laptop and a few belongings into her backpack—it could hold a lot more stuff now that it wasn’t weighed down with the jet engine—and she stepped with it into the black night. She didn’t know the answers she sought, she didn’t yet know the questions, or even the exact nature of her quest. All she knew as she stood there on the highway with her thumb poking out, feeling the hot push of the trucks’ exhaust fumes in her face, was that what she was doing felt so right...
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the following for their invaluable technical advice and support: Janet Blagg, my editor who knows all the right buttons to press; Constable Elliot Cottrill and Inspector Tom Clay for their help with police procedure; Kellie Potter, computer whiz extraordinaire; Christine Nagel, Trish O’Neil and Carole Sutton for tips and ideas.
