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E
verything was almost perfect. Scott
has been appointed as a consultant veterinarian at the Central Park Zoo. Evie has decided that she wants to stay in New York after all, so it looks as if her life is going to be one of helping out at the vet clinic, going horse-riding, making more friends at her new school. Then this stranger shows up, claiming to be her father, the musician who ran out on her mum before Evie was even born.

And now he has filed a lawsuit to try and get custody of her.

‘It’s nothing for you to worry about,’ Scott tells her. ‘My lawyer says we will easily beat it.’

So Evie tries to put it to aside and get on with her life, supported by Kylie and Greg, and someone new, Lorcan, the guy who sits next to her in school, and may turn out to be a
boyfriend
.

But behind the day-to-day animal dramas at the clinic, Joanna’s major falling out with Scott, and a rather too close encounter with a foraging bear, there is the continuing drama of the custody case.

It hasn’t been easy to fight, as Scott promised it would be, especially when there are unscrupulous people, like Camille, and Tamara’s slimy twin brother Coltan – who hates Evie, for some unknown reason – who are prepared to lie in the courtroom about her and Scott. And who is behind this
conspiracy
? Of course, the vengeful Leela.

How will it all turn out? Will Evie really have to go to live in Australia with her father?

SHEILA AGNEW was born in New York and grew up in Dublin with her sister and two brothers. They liked to pretend to be the children in
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
.

Although Sheila couldn’t quite make it to Narnia, she set out to
experience
what she could of this world. After graduating from UCD., she practiced as a lawyer in London, Sydney and New York and got to work in such far-flung places as Accra, Cairo and Bratislava.

Sheila has wanted to be a writer since she was seven and fell in love with
Danny, the Champion of the World
. In 2002, she took time-out from her legal career to write and to travel around Asia. In 2011, she moved to Argentina to learn Spanish and work on a horse farm. The following year, she relocated to Dingle in County Kerry where she wrote
Evie
Brooks
. Sheila based the character of ‘Ben’ on her own black-and-white spaniel of dubious lineage.

Sheila now lives and writes in New York City.