CHAPTER 2
Noosa, Australia
Snapping shut her laptop with a defeated sigh, Emilia rubbed the spot between her eyes.
She had a headache; the kind that made her want to crawl into the middle of her bed, curl into a ball and draw the covers over her head.
Not that that was unusual – she’d been getting them a lot over the last few months. The cause was no mystery either.
Every single time she went through David’s notes, she saw exactly the same thing… a big, fat nothing. Even so, she continued reading them, over and over again, looking for some small clue she might have missed… until the strain of searching made her head thump so badly she was forced to admit defeat for another day.
After five months of fruitless searching, she was beginning to suspect David’s research had nothing at al
