Empire Bay’s winter nights
Chapter 1 Sleep well in Empire Bay. I was staying with Aunt Jen for three days in Empire Bay while my parents went to Liberty City for the funeral of Uncle Jack. “Aunt Jen” as I had always known her was not actually my aunt but Mum’s friend Jennifer, but she had always been known as Aunt Jen for as long as I could remember. Aunt Jen was in her mid forties and worked as a nurse, quite ordinarily but nice, although I think she had struggled financially since her husband died she was always very smartly dressed and always seemed to be wearing stockings I remember. Her and her husband had never had children and she now lived alone about five miles from us in a small terraced cottage in a village. It was …