Connie’s Courage

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Annie Groves. Connie’s Courage

ANNIE GROVES. Connie’s Courage

Contents

ONE. 1912

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE. 1913

TEN

ELEVEN

TWELVE. Spring 1916

Bodies:

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

SEVENTEEN

EIGHTEEN

NINETEEN

TWENTY

TWENTY-ONE

TWENTY-TWO

TWENTY-THREE

TWENTY-FOUR

TWENTY-FIVE

TWENTY-SIX

TWENTY-SEVEN

EPILOGUE

About the Author. CONNIE’S COURAGE

Copyright

About the Publisher

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I would like to dedicate this book to my mother who paid me the best compliment I have ever had in being so impatient to read Connie’s story. Here she is, Mum – I hope you like her!

Title Page

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Kieron glared furiously across the smoke-filled, filthy room at the man sitting opposite him. On the table between them was the money they had both staked – and the winning hand the other man had just gloatingly revealed.

Kieron could never resist a gamble. It lured and possessed him, like drink or women lured and possessed other men. It was a need and a lust that overwhelmed everything else in his life. His decision to run away with Connie had been made on the toss of a coin – heads, he took her; tails, he didn’t.

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