{"id":2639,"date":"2026-01-03T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/shetland-island-08-wild-fire-cleeves-ann\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:41:08","slug":"shetland-island-08-wild-fire-cleeves-ann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/shetland-island-08-wild-fire-cleeves-ann\/","title":{"rendered":"Shetland Island 08 – Wild Fire – Cleeves, Ann"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emma sat on the shingle bank and watched the kids on the beach below build a bonfire. They\u2019d dragged pieces of driftwood into a pile; it was something to do to relieve their boredom. Nothing much happened in Deltaness. It was too far from Lerwick for an easy night out, and the buses stopped long before the bars closed. The night was clear and still and the light drained slowly away. In another month it would be midsummer. Emma was there because she was bored too. When she was a child she\u2019d longed for boredom, for quiet, normal days free from tension. School and homework, and meals with the family that didn\u2019t end in anger, shouting or worse. Now, she thought, she\u2019d inherited a need for excitement, a longing to fill her days with action and challenge, to provoke a response from the people in her life. A need to make things happen.<\/p>\n

She stared out towards the horizon, where the sea and the sky had blurred into one, and wondered why was she still here in Deltaness then, working as nanny? A voice in her head told her that she was still in Shetland because she was scared of the world away from the islands. Here she was safe, in a tight community where she knew her place. If she hadn\u2019t been so scared, she\u2019d have stuck with Daniel Fleming, run away south with him, become an artist or a model or a designer. Emma closed her ears to the voice. She didn\u2019t like to think of herself as scared. Life here wasn\u2019t so bad. It had its own compensations. She took a bottle out of her bag. This wasn\u2019t her wonderful new bag that stood on her bed, reminding her of those compensations, but the one she\u2019d made herself out of a scrap of leftover fabric. She took a swig of vodka and passed the bottle to the man beside her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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