Hi, everyone. Welcome to the new story. I hope you will continue reading it. I'm up to chapter fifty so I hope it's good enough that people would like to read it and I haven't wasted an excess of time!
This is a little bit different to my usual CJ fics (but it is CJ, I promise you) and this first chapter should start to tell you how different. All feedback is appreciated and I will post up the next chapter in a few days – if you want me to.
I hope you enjoy the beginning. Love, IJKS xxx
Chapter One
January 2000
Sydney, Australia
The world, at least for the most part, had not ended. People had stocked up in preparation for the elusive Y2K bug for no reason. Everything had continued as normal. And that included the fact that Detective Ross Buckton was working all the hours God sent, to the neglect of his loving family. He'd hardly seen his wife, Elsie at all and had almost forgotten what his beloved daughters, Charlie and Ruby, looked like. He apologised constantly but for the last two weeks, he had been doing everything he could to solve the most high profile case Australia had seen in recent years. It had gone global to a lesser degree. And it was the responsibility of Detective Buckton and his team to solve it. So far, they weren't having any luck and he felt more than a little sick about it. A beautiful young girl had gone missing. She was the fifteen year old daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the country. Sir Nicholas Collins was frantic about her whereabouts. He'd offered any kind of reward for his daughter as the police tried to ascertain whether his youngest child had run away or been taken. Each time Ross saw her mother, Roz, she seemed bereft, as if a part of her had died. He was desperate to bring Joey Collins home but hope was fading fast.