Set the glaze down on a potholder next to your cookies. Spoon a little over the top of each cookie and let it drizzle down the sides. (You can also pour it over the cookies, but that’s a little harder to do.) When you’re all through, top each cookie with a pecan half, making sure the nut sticks to the chocolate glaze.

Leave the cookies on the wire rack until the glaze has hardened. This will take approximately 30 minutes. Then eat and enjoy!

Lisa’s Note: When I’m in a hurry and don’t have time to glaze the cookies, I just sprinkle them with a little powdered sugar, serve them with chocolate ice cream, and call it a day.

Hannah’s Note: Norman says to warn any friends with temporary fillings that the caramels in the center of these cookies are chewy.

Another Note: You can store these cookies in a box lined with wax paper in the refrigerator, but take them out at least thirty minutes before you serve them so that the caramel in the center will soften and not break a tooth!

Yield: Approximately 6 dozen very tasty cookies.

Chapter

Chapter

Eleven

Hannah checked the list of names that Sally had sent along with the box lunches. It was one-thirty, and everyone had been served with the exception of Ross, Burke Anson, and Dean’s chauffeur, Connor. Hannah was about to take the remaining lunches back to the walk-in cooler in the kitchen when Ross came in with Burke.

“Sorry we’re late,” Ross said, coming around the counter to give her a hug, and then standing there with his arm around her shoulders. “Burke and I got hung up on a line rewrite for the scene we’re shooting this afternoon.”

“Line rewrite?” Hannah asked, picking up on the phrase. She thought she knew what it meant, but she wasn’t absolutely certain.

“Small changes,” Ross explained, “that don’t affect the staging of the scene, or the basic motivation. Burke thought Jody should stammer slightly whenever Amy brought up their father.”

“As a clue that Jody killed him?”

“Right. I mean, we’re not going to hit them over the head with it, just give a little suggestion of a stammer. Amy’s not going to react right then, but later she’ll remember and it’ll be another almost subliminal indication for her to add to the mix.”

“I’ll go tell Lynne and Erica what we decided,” Burke said, taking his lunch and heading over to the table where Lynne was sitting with Erica James and her mother. Jeanette didn’t look happy. Was the strain of corralling her daughter too much for her to handle? Then Hannah noticed someone who looked even unhappier than Jeanette James, and she experienced a jolt of surprise. Norman was positively glaring at Ross. Was it because Ross had his arm around her shoulders? Or was there another reason?