By Mary Logue
Police officer Clare Watkins strikes together with her younger daughter to Wisconsin to escape from the previous and it is undesirable stories. yet Clare does not be aware of that her ten-year-old daughter Meg not just witnessed the hit-and-run twist of fate that killed her father, she had additionally noticeable the fellow who used to be driving...and have been noticeable through him.
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Mr. Blounder turned back from the door. “Your sister called. She wants you to call her. ” No, not Claire. Everything else in her life could be going bad, but not Claire. She needed to get out of here; she couldn’t stay and work her shift. So she did the only thing she could think of doing that would stop Mr. Blounder in his tracks. With her good hand, she lifted up the old apothecary bottle that was Mr. Blounder’s pride and joy. Written across the bottle in old script was the word Calendula. Its solid glass stopper was a perfect orb on top.
SUCH A LITTLE bird and so full of itself. Claire watched the wren land on the tip of Landers’ satellite dish and sing its liquid warble. Its song made the world a better place, which it sorely needed to be this morning. She was standing by the gate at the end of Landers’ walk, waiting for reinforcements, as they say. She wasn’t sure what her role would be in all of this. So far on the squad, she had been just one of the guys, ticketing speeders, checking on intruders, supervising parades. But the sheriff knew she had worked on homicide cases.
But she hoped that, in the end, the earth had simply risen up to greet him. 3 Bridget rode hard. She could hear the horse breathing in surges that connected with her own heart pounding in her chest. Was it the wind she was feeling, or were they moving so fast over the field that the air stirred all around them? Would she make it to the edge of woods in time to get to work? She leaned down close to her horse’s neck and clucked. Jester did his characteristic skip and then moved into a full-fledged gallop, legs eating up the ground.