CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

I hate hospitals. I hate the smell of them and…

CHAPTER 1

It had started only three days earlier, although now that…

CHAPTER 2

Following the attendant’s detailed directions, I drove out through the…

CHAPTER 3

After that initial meeting, I didn’t hang around Live Oak…

CHAPTER 4

Married people do it all the time. They go to…

CHAPTER 5

No doubt things would have gone more smoothly if the…

CHAPTER 6

We fell asleep. Considering the lateness of the hour when…

CHAPTER 7

Other people went to see Shrew in the Elizabethan that…

CHAPTER 8

I’m not one to spend time worrying about the future.

CHAPTER 9

Tires crunched in the gravel beside me, jarring me out…

CHAPTER 10

Ames joined me on the concrete bench, nodding in greeting.

CHAPTER 11

We were ready to give up and leave when Tanya…

CHAPTER 12

Again I found Alex waiting on the front porch. She…

CHAPTER 13

Around ten, two young women from the Festival appeared. One…

CHAPTER 14

I’ve heard stories about people who age overnight, but Guy…

CHAPTER 15

For outlying towns in the Pacific Northwest—the isolated Pullmans,…

CHAPTER 16

Once he heard what I had to say, Ralph was…

CHAPTER 17

As I struggled to twist the stubborn shutoff valve, my…

CHAPTER 18

Fortunately, the medics reached Tanya Dunseth before I did. They…

CHAPTER 19

Fraymore and I sat in his Mercury outside Oak Hill…

CHAPTER 20

Riding in the car with Fraymore was an emotional nightmare.

CHAPTER 21

It must have been one-thirty or two when I got…

CHAPTER 22

If I do say so myself, it was a hell…


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