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      JESSIE KEANE

      The Make

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      Copyright

      Copyright © Jessie Keane 2011

      Jessie Keane asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      ISBN: 9780007349395

      Ebook Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780007332922

      Version: 2018-02-16

       Dedication

      All my love, as always, to Cliff

      Contents

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Chapter 19

      Chapter 20

      Chapter 21

      Chapter 22

      George and Harry: November

      Chapter 23

      Chapter 24

      Chapter 25

      Chapter 26

      Gracie: December

      Chapter 27

      Chapter 28

      Chapter 29

      Chapter 30

      Chapter 31

      Chapter 32

      Chapter 33

      Chapter 34

      Chapter 35

      George and Harry: December

      Chapter 36

      Chapter 37

      Chapter 38

      Chapter 39

      Chapter 40

      Chapter 41

      Chapter 42

      Chapter 43

      Chapter 44

      Chapter 45

      Chapter 46

      Chapter 47

      Chapter 48

      Chapter 49

      Chapter 50

      Chapter 51

      Chapter 52

      Chapter 53

      Gracie: December

      Chapter 54

      Chapter 55

      Chapter 56

      Chapter 57

      Chapter 58

      Chapter 59

      Chapter 60

      Christmas Day

      Chapter 61

      Chapter 62

      Chapter 63

      Chapter 64

      Chapter 65

      Chapter 66

      Chapter 67

      Chapter 68

      Chapter 69

      Chapter 70

      Chapter 71

      Chapter 72

      Chapter 73

      Chapter 74

      Chapter 75

      Chapter 76

      Chapter 77

      After Christmas

      Chapter 78

      Chapter 79

      New Year’s Eve

      Chapter 80

      Chapter 81

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Also by Jessie Keane

       About the Publisher

       Gracie

      DECEMBER

       Chapter 1

      18 December

      The instant the police were ushered into her office over the casino, Gracie Doyle knew there was trouble brewing. She was slouching in her chair, with her aching bare feet up on her desk after a long, long day. It was a cold, blustery Friday night, and in precisely a week’s time – seven days! Count ’em – it would be Christmas Day.

      She was already sick of all the jingle-bells and fake bonhomie, the endless Wizard and Slade tracks being pumped out of every shopping mall’s sound system, the crazed crush of people wherever you went. Bad things happened at Christmas. For instance, her dad had died just before last Christmas Day. Fatal heart attack, right there in the middle of the casino boulevard. Boom! One minute there, the next – gone. Gracie hated Christmas.

      Now she

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