Nigel's Holiday
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Bestselling romance writer Nigel Hawthorne, brought low by writer's block, seeks inspiration in a walking tour of Romania, and finds more than he bargained for.
Tabitha Ormiston-Smith
Tabitha Ormiston-Smith was born and continues to age. Dividing her time between her houses in Melbourne and the country, she is ably assisted in her editing business and her other endeavours by Ferret, the three-legged bandit.
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Nigel's Holiday - Tabitha Ormiston-Smith
NIGEL’S HOLIDAY
Tabitha Ormiston-Smith
Copyright Tabitha Ormiston-Smith 2014
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NIGEL’S HOLIDAY
Lightning split the night, breaking open the sky like a crack in the firmament. The earth seemed to shake as thunder crashed down and bellowed about the looming hills. In sinister counterpoint, wind howled and roared, whipping trees viciously back and forth in a frenzy of violent gusts. A cloud of bats stitched across the swollen, gibbous moon, their eldritch skreeking like a horde of demons. In a second flash of lightning a massive, grim fortress flickered into being, darkly brooding atop a lofty crag.
Clouds swelled, swelled and broke, disgorging a torrent of freezing rain, drowning even the thunder in its hammering. Water ran madly in rivulets on every surface. Black, roiling clouds swallowed the moon.
One of those rivulets ran in a straight line down the neck of Nigel Hawthorne, best-selling writer of Gothic romance novels. Sod off, he told it silently, between sneezes. Nigel was, at this point, not a happy man. He’d been on the road for five hours, and badly wanted his tea.
Up until a fortnight ago, Nigel had had it made. His sales, although not on a par with those of truly top sellers like Stephen King and J K Rowlings, were very comfortable, thank you, and he’d just signed another five book deal with a major publishing house. GothCon, the