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Chapter 1

Julia Collins had issues She’d even made a list of them—in order of priority, of course Her OCD tendencies sat in joint first place with her pathological shyness This was closely followed by the paralysis she felt when dealing with the opposite sex, then came the way she cru panic that overcame her anytime she was out of her comfort zone In other words, she was absolutely the best person to ask for help when you were languishing in a foreign jail

“Have you found randmother said from the other side of the bars

Yes

Bars

“Not yet I only had tis and clean up before I caer than she’d anticipated, because she couldn’t speak Spanish and hadn’t realised the hotel she’d booked was about a two-hour taxi trip froh she suspected her driver had taken the circuitous route

Of course, if she’d brought Joe along with her, as her boss had insisted she do, then she would have knohere to book a hotel The ex-marine had spent tie

A flash of guilt speared through Julia at the thought of Joe Barone She’d deliberately eht details that were false In fact, she hadn’t even booked hi fourteen hours sitting on a plane next to a man who attracted and terrified her in equal parts was just tooin Heathroaiting for her to turn up

“Julia? Are you awake?” Her gran’s ludicrous question brought her back to her present situation

“Of course I’ to you”

“Mmm, for a minute there, I wasn’t sure You do realise that this is a tiet out of prison before some woman called Bertha makes me her bitch”

“Gran!” Julia gave her a disapproving glare “You are joking, right? I , are you?”

“Only by poor hygiene and terrible food There’s a good chance I’ll die of the bubonic plague before I’m released” She raised her stubborn chin “To hell with a lawyer Just break me out of here I mean, look at the place” She waved a hand “How hard could it be?”

“You can’t talk like that,” Julia hissed as she looked around to see if anyone had overheard All she saas the industrial grey concrete thatarea of Lima’s notorious female prison It wasn’t eneral area of the prison, she was glad her gran was being held separately