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    Summer Holidays
    Summer Holidays
    Summer Holidays
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    Summer Holidays

    By Sophia DeLuna

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    17-year-old Alex is not too thrilled at the prospect of spending her precious holidays at her aunt's farm. However, when she tries to rescue a beautiful young woman from throwing herself off a cliff, her holidays take an unexpected turn.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSophia DeLuna
    Release dateApr 20, 2013
    ISBN9781301513055
    Summer Holidays
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    Sophia DeLuna

    I live on the outskirts of Nuremberg, and I love walking with my dog in the forest, which starts just across the road. My greatest passions are the English language, writing, reading, and my aquariums. I also love photographing, digital painting and creating digital art, crocheting, singing, travelling, learning languages, watching documentaries, etc. In short, I love being creative and I'm interested in a vast variety of subjects. Some of my photos and digital paintings can be viewed here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/sophiadeluna

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      Summer Holidays - Sophia DeLuna

      Summer Holidays

      By

      Sophia DeLuna

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      *****

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Sophia DeLuna at Smashwords, Inc, Los Gatos

      www.smashwords.com

      Summer Holidays

      Copyright © 2013 by Sophia DeLuna

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      Copyright © 2013 by Sophia DeLuna

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      *****

      As always, I want to say thank you to my dear friend and editor, Agota, for all her help, advice and encouragement.

      *****

      Summer Holidays

      We were here, my mum and I, to spend four weeks of my precious summer holidays at my aunt's place - a farm in the middle of nowhere with access to the beach. Some people would probably have envied me. I'd much rather have liked to stay at home in Sydney and spend my time hanging out with my friends in the city or reading and playing games on the computer. But my mother insisted that I needed fresh air and a change of scenery, and that it would do me good to spend time with my cousins, with whom I had about as much in common as a peacock and a bucket full of cane toads. Why she thought that spending time with a bunch of country bumpkins at the beach where I'd certainly get sunburnt and develop skin cancer would be good for me, I know not. But she had made up her mind and she was absolutely adamant.

      Thus, here I was, only half listening to my cousins' chatter. Admittedly, the place was pretty, and had it not been

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