The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker

Author: Catherine Walsh Listening Length: 9h 45m
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Katie Collins has barely ever left her tiny Irish village of Ennisbawn. Why would she? With its tightknit community, friendly local pub, surrounded by glistening lakes and perfectly mysterious forests, it’s a place of peaceful beauty. Or it was peaceful. Until Callum Dempsey turned up. Part of a hot-shot (and, Katie h...

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I scream.

Or I almost scream. It comes out like a kind of strangled yelp as I whirl around in full-on attack mode, hands flailing and ready to hit.

Pain ricochets through my wrist as I connect with something, a nose, judging by the grunt from my assailant, but I barely have time to feel victorious as I lose my footing on the wet pavement slabs beneath me.

My right foot slides in front as I hit the back of the well with an oomph , and for one stomach-dropping moment, I teeter over the edge before I’m jerked up, pulled not into the murky darkness below but straight into the broad, hard chest of a stranger.