Eighty Days Yellow (36 page)

Could it work? I mused, pulling my short black dress out of the wardrobe, the one that I had worn for him, briefly at least, for one of our early recitals.

I thought so. We were two halves of the same whole, Dominik and me. Even an ocean couldn’t keep us apart indefinitely.

I packed a small overnight bag with my outfit for that evening, gave the Bailly one last glance and headed out through the door.

Dominik still hadn’t visited me at home.

Perhaps next time I would invite him in.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all the people who made the writing of the Eighty Days series not just a possibility but a pleasure – Sarah Such at Sarah Such Literary Agency, Jemima Forrester and Jon Wood at Orion for believing, and Matt Christie for photography –
www.mattchristie.com
.

Special thanks to all the unnamed individuals who assisted along the way with research, support and violin lessons; the Groucho Club and Chinatown restaurants for hosting our perverse speculations; and to our respective partners for standing by at all hours of night and day as we typed away in overdrive and neglected them.

One half of Vina Jackson would like to thank her employer for her extraordinary support, understanding and very open mind.

And a final thanks to First Great Western trains for facilitating the wings of fate through the lottery of online booking which brought us together.

If
Eighty Days Yellow
left you breathless for more,
get ready for the next two books
in Vina Jackson’s compulsive
new trilogy

Eighty Days Blue
and
Eighty Days Red

Coming soon in 2012

About the Author

Vina Jackson is the pseudonym for two established writers working together for the first time. One a successful author, the other a published writer who is also a city professional working in the Square Mile.

Copyright

AN ORION EBOOK

First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Orion Books.
This ebook first published in 2012 by Orion Books.

Copyright © Vina Jackson 2012

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All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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ISBN:
978 1 4091 2775 8

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