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|title=Lay Me Down

|author=Nicci Cloke

|publisher=Vintage

|date=February 2015

|summary=A New Year's Eve party brings loner, Jack and lively, beautiful Elsa together with a kiss at midnight. The kiss becomes more... much more; and as they board a plane just eight months later to begin a new life in San Francisco, Elsa thinks they have a real shot at something other than boy-meets-girl. But as Jack becomes increasingly preoccupied with the less appealing aspects of his job on the Golden Gate Bridge, Elsa begins to feel isolated and both find themselves dwelling on a past they thought they had each safely buried.

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It's New Year's Eve and the nightclub is pulsating with sound. The revellers heave and swell in oceanic waves and Jack is preparing to call it a night, when he is presented with Elsa. She is small; delicate and pretty and alluringly confident - a heady combination for a man like Jack - and though he wants, with every fibre of his being, to walk away, to go home and forget her, he doesn't.