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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