CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

DEDICATION

PROLOGUE

Hands on her hips, youthful breasts outthrust…

CHAPTER 1

It was five o’clock on a friday afternoon in June…

CHAPTER 2

Joanna Brady stopped at the door of her…

CHAPTER 3

Dennis Hacker came home from his shopping trip…

CHAPTER 4

With a hard lump blocking her throat and almost…

CHAPTER 5

Finished dressing, Joanna rushed out to her…

CHAPTER 6

Joanna knew there were lots of people in town…

CHAPTER 7

Angie Kellogg tried calling Joanna several times…

CHAPTER 8

Not knowing what to say in response, Joanna…

CHAPTER 9

Joanna went out to the Crown Victoria and…

CHAPTER 10

Joanna punched the button that ended the call…

CHAPTER 11

Angie Kellogg had seen hummers in news…

CHAPTER 12

Angie and Dennis arrived in the meadow off the…

CHAPTER 13

Ernie and Jaime had just pulled away when…

CHAPTER 14

Standing on the edge of the ridge, Joanna looked…

CHAPTER 15

The next several hours passed in a blur of activity.

CHAPTER 16

By the time they reached Douglas, Joanna realized…

CHAPTER 17

Joanna left the coroner’s office at five. The rain…

CHAPTER 18

Tall, broad-shouldered, and with his brown…

CHAPTER 19

Standing in front of her closet on Monday…

CHAPTER 20

An hour later, while Joanna was busy reading…

CHAPTER 21

Taking two separate cars, Ernie and Joanna drove…

CHAPTER 22

During Joanna’s term as sheriff, paperwork had…

CHAPTER 23

Sitting there thinking the unthinkable and…

CHAPTER 24

When the speeding Crown Victoria finally reached…

CHAPTER 25

Following the speeding Hummer, Dick Voland’s…

CHAPTER 26

Once Ernie Carpenter had applied a tourniquet to…

CHAPTER 27

About four o’clock in the afternoon, still…

CHAPTER 28

As usual, Marliss Shackleford couldn’t keep from…


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