title: Read By Dawn: Volume II
author: Adele Hartley
description: Adle Harley has directed Dead by Dawn, Scotlands International Horror Film Festival, for 13 years.
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  > ADELE CLEE
  
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  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  _Chapter 11_
  
  >  _Chapter 12_
  
  >  _Chapter 13_
  
  >  _Chapter 14_
  
  >  _Chapter 15_
  
  >  _Chapter 16_
  
  >  _Chapter 17_
  
  >  _Chapter 18_
  
  >  _Chapter 19_
  
  >  _Chapter 20_
  
  >  _Chapter 21_
  
  >  _Thank you!_
  
  >  _Copyright_
  
  >  _Books by Adele Clee_
  
  > > > > CHAPTER 1
  
  > > ![](Images/image00137.jpeg)
  
  _Keel Hall_
  
   _Little Chelsea, London_
  
  IT WAS one hell of a storm. Lightning lit the night sky in a blinding burst of
  white. The angry grumble of thunder followed seconds later while raindrops the
  size of small pebbles pelted the windowpanes in Evan Sloane’s drawing room.
  
  The raging tempest stirred his restless spirit. A man with the blood of a
  pirate flowing through his veins welcomed life’s trials and tribulations. Was
  that