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Date: 07 September 2002

NOVA Scans so far:
01. A.J Quinnell - Man on Fire
02. Clive Cussler - Vixen 03
03. Nick Hornby - How to be Good
04. Locks Picks & Clicks
05. Jeffrey Deaver – The Empty Chair
06. Kim Stanley Robinson – The Years of Rice and Salt
07. John Gray – Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
08. Jeffrey Deaver – The Stone Monkey
09 Christopher Priest – The Extremes
10 David Morrell - Double Image
11 Stephen Leather - Tango One




CHAPTER 1

Her name is Teresa Ann Gravatt and she is seven years old. She has a mirror through which
she can see into another world.

The real world is for Teresa a small and unexciting one, but she dreams of better things, of a
world beyond the one she knows. She lives with her parents on a US Air Force base near
Liverpool, in the northwest of England. Her father is a serving officer in the USAF; her
mother is British, a local girl from Birkenhead. One day the family will move back to the
USA when her father's tour of European duty is through. They will probably go to
Richmond, Virginia, where Bob Gravatt originated, and where his own father has a franchise
for distributing industrial paints. Bob often talks about what he will do when he leaves the Air
Force, but it's plain to everyone that the Cold War is going to continue for many years to
come, and that US military preparedness is not going to be relaxed.

Teresa has long curls of palebrown hair, gradually darkening from the baby fairness that
made her daddy call her his princess. Her mommy likes to brush it for her, although she
doesn't seem to realize when the tangles get caught. Teresa can now read books by herself,
write and draw by herself, play by herself She is used to being alone, but likes playing with
the other kids on the base. She rides her bicycle every day in the safety of the park near the
living quarters, and it's then she plays with some of her friends. She's currently the only one
with an English mother, but no
one seems to notice. Every weekday her daddy drives her to and from the other side of the
base, where the children of the serving men attend school.

Teresa looks and acts like a happy little girl; she is loved by her parents and liked by her
friends at school. Nothing seems wrong in Teresa's life, because those who know her best live
in the same secure world of the US Air Force. Her friends also lack a permanent home, and