SIDNEY SHELDON
TELL ME YOUR DREAMS
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Ebook Edition © APRIL 2010 ISBN: 9780007385621 Version: 2015-09-08
For the two Larrys: Larry Hughes and Larry Kirshbaum,my two literary Sherpas
Table of Contents
SOMEONE was following her. She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, violent world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately hard not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with unbearable nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom. Perhaps it’s all in my imagination, Ashley Patterson thought. I’m working too hard. I need a vacation.
She turned to study herself in her bedroom mirror. She was looking at the image of a woman in her late twenties, neatly dressed, with patrician features, a slim figure and intelligent,