LETTERS FROM KATE

LETTERS FROM KATE

Realizing what she’d found, Allison scooped up the letters. She was stuffing them back into the manila envelope when she was seized by a thought so stunning that it stopped her hands in midmotion.

Maybe she was meant to find these letters.

Maybe, in this time of shattering crisis, there was something here that would help her understand the proud, impossibly stubborn man she’d married.

Or maybe not. The letters were private and precious. She had no business touching them.

Still vacillating, she gazed down at the scattered envelopes, trying to decipher the blurred postmarks. The latest one was dated a few months before Kate’s death.

One envelope, this one plain, white, business size, and thicker than the others, bore no postmark, stamp, or address, only a single line, written in an unsteady hand.

For Burke, to be opened after my death.

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LETTERS FROM PEACEFUL LANE

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CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 1

Branson, Missouri October

Alone on the balcony, Allison Caldwell watched the shadows deepen across Table Rock Lake. Even in the fading daylight, the hills that framed the water burned with autumn color—the flames and crimsons of black gum and bittersweet, the scarlets and golds of maple, ash, oak, and hickory, all at the peak of their fall glory.