Echo Beach

by Shelly Betts

It’s June 1983. Louise Winter is fifteen, madly in love with Heath Anderson, has a great circle of friends and a Saturday job at Woolworths. Life is good; until she meets her pop idol Donny Malone, during a public appearance at the opening of the record department in Birmingham. During his sexual assault on Louise, Donny Malone is attacked and left for dead. But which of her three best friends came to her rescue: Tracy; Alyia or Debra? The police have no witnesses or evidence to link them to his attack. Louise refuses to report her assault to the police in fear of the repercussions. All four girls make a pact to keep the harrowing altercation a secret. Thirty three years later, Donny Malone is accused of historical sexual assaults on other women and taken in for questioning. The police reopen the case in relation to his attack in 1983 and the four women fear their past is coming back to shatter their lives. Will Louise be able to keep her torturous secret for much longer, or will she break her silence and reveal all? Does she really believe her confession will bring back everything Donny Malone has taken from her since that horrific night; her friends; her first true love? Louise knows she must finally face up to her past for the sake of her future, but at what cost? Step back into 1983 and relieve the era like it was yesterday...

426 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2017

About the author

I live in Warwickshire with my husband and gorgeous dogs. I have a son who has left home and a step-son. I enjoy writing short stories and have written three novels. I have received plenty of motivation and inspiration from my tutor Sue Johnson (author of Fables Fortune) and my co-writers at our writing group in Pershore. I have a great passion for music (especially the eighties) and listen to it whilst writing.

My three novels are available on Amazon in paperback and on Kindle.

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