Publisher's Synopsis
It's the weekend and pretty young thing Julia Miles is staying at her older brother's desolate mansion to babysit her adorable nephew, Rex, and her hateful teenage niece, Tilly. Despite her longstanding feud with Tilly (who is on to her aunt's secret alcohol problem) Julia is more than happy to do the job... ...and it's only partially to do with her brother's huge luxury wine cellar.The evening passes quickly into an alcohol-infused blur, and before Julia knows it, she's waking up with the hangover from hell, and absolutely no knowledge of what happened the night before. Except, this is unlike any gruelling hangover Julia has ever had before. Because aside from the incessant pounding in her head, Julia wakes up in a wrecked house; drenched in blood and worst of all... both Rex and Tilly are missing. A long, harrowing investigation ensues which rapidly exposes secrets and lies that the family had worked so hard to keep deeply buried and concealed. The finger is pointed straight at Julia however, when a video surfaces of a drunken fight breaking out between her and Tilly. With nobody on her side, it's up to Julia to join a race against time to reveal the horrific truth behind Rex and Tilly's disappearance and prove her innocence... if she even is innocent...Whose blood was it on Julia's hands? Where are the Miles children? Will they be found alive?Never Drinking Again is a twisty mystery thriller which contains a whole host of vibrant, larger-than-life characters who each bare their own deadly secrets in the terrifying, nightmarish case of the missing children. Readers won't be able to put this gripping page-turner down and will be constantly guessing about the fate of the Miles children, right up until the chilling, spine-tingling finale.
