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Megan Rhys is a half-Welsh, half-Indian forensic psychologist who is assessing the impact of the government's new legislation on the vice trade in Cardiff. As predicted by critics, the problem hasn't gone away - prostitutes have simply moved into darker, more dangerous areas. Megan is deeply concerned about the risk this poses to the women - especially as a young prostitute was murdered in the area just a few months ago. The story opens with Megan joining Pauline, a former prostitute turned outreach worker who the police called 'the oldest tart on the beat', in the red light district. Pauline is giving out condoms - she is affectionately known to the working girls as 'The Rubber Woman'.
Accent Press Ltd; November 2007
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Megan Rhys was getting ready for a night in Cardiff’s red light district. She dressed carefully. She mustn’t give the wrong signals. Scooping her long dark hair off her shoulders, she caught it up in a silver clasp. After a hot day in the city her eye make-up was smudged. She stared at her face in the mirror, seeing it as the punters might see it. Did the kohl eyeliner make her look too tarty? There was a tight feeling in her stomach. She always got it a few minutes before walking out of the door. Before she’d come to Cardiff, she’d thought nothing could shock her. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Her mobile phone rang out and she grabbed her handbag from the bed. ‘Hello.’ The female voice at the other end was husky. Pauline Barrow had been smoking two hundred cigarettes a week for the past thirty years. ‘Hi Pauline – you still okay for tonight?’ ‘Yeah – is nine o’clock all right?’ Her gravelly voice had a strong South Wales accent. ‘Fine,’ Megan replied. ‘Shall I meet you by the factory again?’ There was a pause before Pauline answered. ‘Yes, but be careful where you park. Did you hear about the stabbing?’ Megan had seen the report on the evening news. A prostitute had been knifed in the factory car park. She had been thrown out of a car and left bleeding on the tarmac. If another woman hadn’t heard her screams she would have bled to death. Since the crackdown on the vice trade, things had become much worse for women who sold sex. There was an election coming and the government wanted votes. ‘Make Our Streets Safe’ was the slogan on the posters. But the problem wasn’t going to go away. The red light district had simply moved to a darker, more dangerous part of the city. When Megan next spoke to Pauline, night was falling over Cardiff. The last rays of the setting sun were blocked out by the huge factories on the industrial estate. Long shadows fell across the car park where they had agreed to meet. It was deathly silent now that the factory was closed for the night. Megan glanced around her. Suddenly she caught sight of a figure bending over the boot of a car. It was the shape of the head that told her it was Pauline. Her hair, which was dyed a wild shade of red, was gelled and sprayed into a spiky crown. In daylight she looked quite scary. Now she looked like a busy insect, the spikes sticking out from her forehead like antennae. ‘Pauline!’ Megan called out while she was still a few yards away. She didn’t want to scare her by suddenly appearing out of nowhere. ‘Hiya, Meg.’ Pauline looked up from the box of condoms she was unpacking. ‘I’ve got a new one tonight – called “Virgin’s Prayer”, would you believe? It’s supposed to taste like rum and orange!’ She gave a throaty chuckle and Megan smiled. Despite her scary look, Pauline’s laugh was never far away. She gave out condoms to girls on the streets, and their assorted flavours and designs were always good for a giggle. Megan had learned that this was how she broke the ice. It was a way of getting the girls to open up and talk about their lives.
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