Completely re-written and re-edited.I make no apology for the slow start as it is meant to reflect Carole's slow, boring life, a life that changes as various events unfold.After her employer vacates this life, strange feelings begin to interfere with Carole's normal routine, which she tries to maintain as far as possible whilst all around her own private bubble is being is being slowly dragged into the real world-a world she has always tried to remain isolated from.And,Her new employer does not help matters. Far from it.A host of suppressed, half-forgotten, doubts, fears and suspicions slowly begin to surface, revealing answers to something so…!Oh!Why could things not remain the way they were before-before all this happened?The worst thing about being the subject of someone's infatuation is; not knowing you are the subject! Robert was born in 1949 in the small Scottish hamlet of Douglas West, Douglas in Lanarkshire, but moved to England when his father, a miner, had to move south for a job.Having left school at the age of fifteen, without any qualifications whatsoever, he started work in a small engineering firm. He soon got fed up coming home covered in dirty grease and having a spotty face so, after six months, decided that engineering was not for him. With nothing to lose, he ran away to sea, so to speak. He joined the Merchant Navy and happily spent three and a half years travelling the world and getting paid for it!Meeting his future wife at the age of nineteen convinced Robert to leave the sea and settle down. There were not many jobs around for a nineteen-year-old and he ended up doing bar/cellar work until deciding to get married at the age of twenty. That was when he joined the Royal Air Force, in which he spent nine years as a Clerk Secretarial, attaining the rank of Corporal before leaving in 1979.After applying for various jobs, Robert finally got one with the National Coal Board in a colliery Stores Department. Ok, this would do him for a while, whilst he looked around for something better. Thirty years later, as a Supply and Contracts Manager, he retired from the Coal Industry at the age of fifty-nine and now has an allotment where he plays at growing vegetables (very nice they are too), and spends his spare time dabbling on his laptop; bliss.Now, with seven books on Smashwords, an eighth under construction, and number nine in the pipeline, who knows where it will stop?Second in the series, Beryl's Pup is now also available

Mode of access: World Wide Web