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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. FLEECED
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  84. About the Author

“AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!” Lydia came charging across the room like one of the bulls running in Pamplona and knocked down the ladder. Burkhard fell sideways, jostling the platform where the sheep were parked, and landed on top of the anniversary cake.

The sudden jolt dislodged one of Dolly’s eyes, and it fell to the floor. As Regan rushed over, the dark-haired woman who’d been staring at the sheep dove for the ground, and an icing-covered Burkhard slid down on top of her.

Just as Regan leaned down to pull Burkhard up, she saw the woman’s hand close over the eye. In a flash, everything came together. I only have eyes for ewe. The diamonds. The sparkly eyes.

“Buttercup!” Regan cried.

Georgette’s head involuntarily turned toward Regan’s voice.

“It’s you, Georgette, isn’t it?” Regan said. “Why don’t you hand it over?”

With her free hand, Georgette reached down the inside of her leg, grabbed her gun, and started to run for the door.

The crowd started to scream and scatter in a panic, trying to get out of Georgette’s way.

With a burst of speed, Regan ran after her and tackled her from behind.

“No, Georgette,” Regan yelled as the gun fired into the air, putting a hole through one of the ancient portraits above the stairway. Regan knocked the gun out of Georgette’s hand as she wrestled her to the ground.

From behind Regan, the voice of Kyle Fleming boomed. “Georgette, how nice to see you again.”

Georgette started screaming bloody murder as Regan grabbed the gun and pried the diamond from her hand. Kyle Fleming quickly slapped a pair of cuffs around Georgette’s wrists.

With the diamond in hand, Regan raced back to the platform, raised the ladder off the floor, scrambled up the steps, and grabbed the three other diamonds from Dolly’s and Bah-Bah’s eye sockets. She turned to the crowd and held out her hand. “The missing diamonds!”

“The club is saved!” someone cried, and everyone cheered.

Just then, Janey’s voice shouted from the doorway, “Regan, I can’t find Thomas anywhere!”

Before Regan could say a word, Harriet came running out of the kitchen. “Fire!” she screamed and turned to run back.

Mass hysteria erupted once again. As it was, the crowd was packed in cheek by jowl. They turned as one and started heading for the door for the second time in a matter of moments.

Regan turned and saw Jack standing in the doorway. “Jack!”

“Regan, who was that woman who cried fire?”

“Harriet. One of the student butlers,” Regan yelled, smoke pouring out all around.

Jack ran toward the kitchen.

“Regan, I have to find Thomas!” Janey wailed.

Nora and Luke were helping usher people out. Regan passed them. “Go ahead. We want to find Thomas. And I’m afraid there’s someone else who might be in their apartment.”

“I’m coming with you,” Luke insisted.