Around her the bedroom was lit by half a dozen candles, their shadows dancing on the walls. A delicate vanilla fragrance filled the room. The gothic palace lay silent. It was almost midnight. Sitting cross-legged in the middle of the large four-poster bed, Riley sat staring down at the CD in her hands. Her CD. Her debut album ... that was due to be released worldwide on the stroke of midnight.
A box of CDs had been delivered that morning with a note from the record company saying simply, “Autograph these in time for the launch party on February 29th.” She’d signed her way through two silver Sharpie markers before all the CD inserts were autographed. At Garrett’s suggestion, she’d practiced her autograph on a few sheets of paper before deciding how she wanted to sign it. Initially it had been fun sitting at Garrett’s huge rosewood dining table signing the insert for each disc but after the first fifty or so the novelty swiftly wore off. Two hours later she had finished the chore. All of the discs had been signed -all bar one. The one she held in her trembling hands.
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BIOGRAPHY Coral McCallum lives in Gourock, a small town on the west coast of Scotland with her family and her beloved cats.
A regular blogger, she began publishing short stories via her blog page and expanded her writing career from there.
Stronger Within, her debut novel and the first in the Silver Lake ser... ies, was published in 2015. Over the next few years she continued the series with Impossible Depths, Bonded Souls and Shattered Hearts before concluding the series with
Long Shadows in February 2021.
Coral has also published standalone novel, Ellen, following the career of fictitious band After Life.
Riley is Coral's latest novel. This is a standalone tale following Riley Johnson, a character that readers first met in the Silver Lake series. There are a few familiar faces from her other books within the pages too.
Coral also writes music reviews for her blog page The525 To Glasgow, where she reviews the live shows she attends on a regular basis. A keen amateur photographer, her live reviews include her own concert photos.
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