Snapshot Smiles

By Barbara Masterton

Evil can come in the shape of a little deprived boy. Out of pity and eagerness to help, you can take him into your life without noticing, at first, the damage that your good intentions have just set in motion... if only Aphelandra had spoken about what she knew and feared, maybe her family would still be happy, she would still have a brother and she would have spared all the suffering to her younger cousin Lillie: a lonely girl living in a far away boarding school in Dorset and whose parents are divorced. The only happiness Lillie can enjoy is the moments she spends with her cousins, uncle, aunt and grandmother during the holidays, when she can join them at Kupton Hall, their home in Minstrelford, Northumberland. Lillie is a lovely girl of thirteen, eager to please, when Oliver creeps into their lives. She is the perfect innocent creature upon whom evil would prey. Who could even imagine what hides behind the beaming smiles of four young people in an old photograph taken at Lillie's birthday picnic by the lake on a late September afternoon!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barbara Masterton
• Release date: Sep 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301066797

Barbara Masterton

Barbara Masterton was born and educated in Weymouth (Dorset, England) and later attended Poole College of Art. She was married at twenty to an accountant. Now retired, her husband is a former City Treasurer of Newcastle. She has five children, all married. Whilst they were young she wrote novels for her own interest, as a form of escapism, keeping her work under the bed in a wooden box known as “Mum’s Coffin”. When at the age of forty-one, her fifth child arrived, she tore up all her manuscripts, believing she would never have another opportunity to write. How wrong she was... Barbara Masterton died in 2016 aged 81. Other works: Island of Glass, Late Harvest, Orbs of Jade, Mrs Milsent's Daughter, Oils in Water.Cross Currents ,Snapshot Smiles