In part one, Everyone Lies, we are introduced to Clare Benton, who was leading a quiet life … struggling to survive, really, as an architect in the small ‘city’ of Kopperburg in Queensland, Australia’s hinterland. A city with little development work going on. But Kopperburg was where she was born and where she wanted to live.
Besides, in her life was Martin Poole. He’s, well, he’s her boyfriend and probably the man she would marry.
Anyway, life was trundling along till one day, the phone rang. Early. That never happened. She found, after a strong conversation with the caller, Martin, that she’d lost a day. Tuesday. Couldn’t remember a thing. That was ok. Everyone loses a day here and there. Didn’t they?
So life trundled … but then it happened again. Clare started to investigate. And her inquires took her up to the old garage in the hills. The one surrounded by rainforest and where John Roe eked out a living. The most recent of a long line of misguided mechanics who thought they could make a living up there.
And there Clare found the truth, and the truth started with what was in the coffee!
In part two, All the Wrong Days, Clare and John live together. And it turns out John is not what he says or what he seems. His ‘past’ catches up with him, and together they run from those hunting John. But in a cave in the forest, Clare presses John for the truth about who he is. John didn’t really love her. She was a convenient person to live with till the time came he could chase after his real love. She leaves him, returning to Kopperburg. But upon seeing Mel, her friend from Mel’s café, with her ‘Magic Man’, Clare returns to the forest, in the rain, to the cave to confront John. But he’s gone.
Returning home, she meets the hunters and finds the whole truth about John. These hunters, these two men, are strange to her, but one, Joshu Glibe, she trusts, and, strangely, perhaps under different circumstances, could maybe even love. They leave promising to ‘fix’ things.
In the final part, Matryoshka, we find that Clare’s life has been destroyed. Without John’s skills at battling the developers who would destroy the city she loves for money, she’s taken through the courts and taken to the cleaners. She’s lost everything, her reputation, business, and house and now lives like a waif in that cave in the forest.
Joshu Glibe comes back. Asked why he couldn’t fix things by Clare, he says that it’s harder than you’d think. He’s sorry and will keep trying. Clare runs away back to her cave. He tracks her there, takes her back to the city, books her into a motel, buys her a new dress, and takes her out for a meal. She runs away, but a few days later, Joshu catches up with her, they talk, but in the end, she leaves.
As the story reaches its end, we see that Joshu does indeed fix things, and she, Joshu, Malin Drav’une – John’s real name – and now forgiven, and Helen, the navy lieutenant Malin had fallen in love, go off to a secluded place to live out their lives. Clare finds happiness at last.
In part one, Everyone Lies, we are introduced to Clare Benton, who was leading a quiet life … struggling to survive, really, as an architect in the small ‘city’ of Kopperburg in Queensland, Australia’s hinterland. A city with little development work going on. But Kopperburg was where she was born and where she wanted to live.
Besides, in her life was Martin Poole. He’s, well, he’s her boyfriend and probably the man she would marry.
Anyway, life was trundling along till one day, the phone rang. Early. That never happened. She found, after a strong conversation with the caller, Martin, that she’d lost a day. Tuesday. Couldn’t remember a thing. That was ok. Everyone loses a day here and there. Didn’t they?
So life trundled … but then it happened again. Clare started to investigate. And her inquires took her up to the old garage in the hills. The one surrounded by rainforest and where John Roe eked out a living. The most recent of a long line of misguided mechanics who thought they could make a living up there.
And there Clare found the truth, and the truth started with what was in the coffee!
In part two, All the Wrong Days, Clare and John live together. And it turns out John is not what he says or what he seems. His ‘past’ catches up with him, and together they run from those hunting John. But in a cave in the forest, Clare presses John for the truth about who he is. John didn’t really love her. She was a convenient person to live with till the time came he could chase after his real love. She leaves him, returning to Kopperburg. But upon seeing Mel, her friend from Mel’s café, with her ‘Magic Man’, Clare returns to the forest, in the rain, to the cave to confront John. But he’s gone.
Returning home, she meets the hunters and finds the whole truth about John. These hunters, these two men, are strange to her, but one, Joshu Glibe, she trusts, and, strangely, perhaps under different circumstances, could maybe even love. They leave promising to ‘fix’ things.
In the final part, Matryoshka, we find that Clare’s life has been destroyed. Without John’s skills at battling the developers who would destroy the city she loves for money, she’s taken through the courts and taken to the cleaners. She’s lost everything, her reputation, business, and house and now lives like a waif in that cave in the forest.
Joshu Glibe comes back. Asked why he couldn’t fix things by Clare, he says that it’s harder than you’d think. He’s sorry and will keep trying. Clare runs away back to her cave. He tracks her there, takes her back to the city, books her into a motel, buys her a new dress, and takes her out for a meal. She runs away, but a few days later, Joshu catches up with her, they talk, but in the end, she leaves.
As the story reaches its end, we see that Joshu does indeed fix things, and she, Joshu, Malin Drav’une – John’s real name – and now forgiven, and Helen, the navy lieutenant Malin had fallen in love, go off to a secluded place to live out their lives. Clare finds happiness at last.
Everone Lies
Everone Lies
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940166055644 |
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| Publisher: | Glenn Kershaw |
| Publication date: | 05/08/2023 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 174 KB |