Rewind by Howard Catherine Ryan

Author:Howard, Catherine Ryan [Howard, Catherine Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781538519707
Amazon: 1538519704
Goodreads: 44132255
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 2019-09-05T07:00:00+00:00

September had always been Natalie’s favourite month. New copybooks, blue skies, fresh starts. On Stephen’s Green, the leaves were turning. In the ten minutes it took her to cut through the park, she counted three Instagram Husbands, each one peering intently into a phone that was trained on a girl or a woman who wasn’t looking at it or him at all, but away, into the middle distance, smiling with her mouth open, shoulders hunched, head angled to the side, acting as if she didn’t even know this perfectly composed shot of her looking glossy and ethereal was even being taken. Natalie had spent the last half-hour with a woman who’d advised her to start posting more photos to Instagram that looked just like that, and she didn’t know how she felt about it.

Ellie Fox called herself a brand manager. That’s what it said on her business cards. She’d given Natalie one at some function long ago, but it was only today that they’d finally sat down for a proper meeting. Now Natalie’s head was swarming with the possibilities Ellie’s services would offer. Higher ad revenue. Partnerships. Sponsored travel. She’d even mentioned a company who would professionally edit your videos before they went online; if Natalie signed with her, she’d have access to it. Although she’d long suspected some of the big accounts must have that kind of thing at their disposal, it was weird to know for sure, as if someone had just yanked back the curtain. But Natalie knew she needed to wise up, to get smart about things. To treat this endeavour like a business, to scale it up. They had a mortgage now, a whopper of one, and Natalie wanted to get to a place where thinking of the future – five years down the line, ten – didn’t automatically make her throat tighten.

Bestseller was relatively empty so Natalie could see immediately that Carla wasn’t there. They’d known each other since they were kids and in all that time Carla had never once been on time, so it wasn’t surprising.

The café was a small space with few tables, but it was cosy and did great coffee and had walls lined with books. Natalie nabbed their usual table, right at the back. She ordered an Americano, which she’d all but drained when Carla came bustling in fifteen minutes later, flushed and apologetic and out of breath.

‘Sorry,’ she said, leaning down to give Natalie a one-armed hug. ‘Work is a fucking nightmare. We’re trying to get this funding proposal in …’ She flopped down. ‘You know what? I’m not even going to get into it. The short version is the place is an absolute shit-show and I really need a coffee the size of my head.’ She looked around for a waiter, then back at Natalie. ‘Anyway. You. How goes it?’

‘Good,’ Natalie said. ‘I’ve just come from a meeting. A bit of an exciting one, actually.’

‘Oh? What about?’

‘Well, this is going to sound weird, but—’

‘What can I get for you, ladies?’

A waiter had materialised alongside them.

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