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  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Books by Elizabeth Goddard
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. ONE
  8. TWO
  9. THREE
  10. FOUR
  11. FIVE
  12. SIX
  13. SEVEN
  14. EIGHT
  15. NINE
  16. TEN
  17. ELEVEN
  18. TWELVE
  19. THIRTEEN
  20. FOURTEEN
  21. FIFTEEN
  22. SIXTEEN
  23. SEVENTEEN
  24. EIGHTEEN
  25. NINETEEN
  26. TWENTY
  27. TWENTY-ONE
  28. TWENTY-TWO
  29. TWENTY-THREE
  30. TWENTY-FOUR
  31. TWENTY-FIVE
  32. TWENTY-SIX
  33. TWENTY-SEVEN
  34. TWENTY-EIGHT
  35. TWENTY-NINE
  36. THIRTY
  37. THIRTY-ONE
  38. THIRTY-TWO
  39. THIRTY-THREE
  40. THIRTY-FOUR
  41. THIRTY-FIVE
  42. THIRTY-SIX
  43. THIRTY-SEVEN
  44. THIRTY-EIGHT
  45. THIRTY-NINE
  46. FORTY
  47. FORTY-ONE
  48. FORTY-TWO
  49. FORTY-THREE
  50. FORTY-FOUR
  51. FORTY-FIVE
  52. FORTY-SIX
  53. FORTY-SEVEN
  54. FORTY-EIGHT
  55. FORTY-NINE
  56. FIFTY
  57. FIFTY-ONE
  58. FIFTY-TWO
  59. FIFTY-THREE
  60. FIFTY-FOUR
  61. FIFTY-FIVE
  62. FIFTY-SIX
  63. FIFTY-SEVEN
  64. FIFTY-EIGHT
  65. FIFTY-NINE
  66. SIXTY
  67. SIXTY-ONE
  68. SIXTY-TWO
  69. SIXTY-THREE
  70. SIXTY-FOUR
  71. SIXTY-FIVE
  72. A Preview of Book 2 in the ROCKY MOUNTAIN COURAGE Series
  73. Author’s Note
  74. Acknowledgments
  75. About the Author
  76. Back Ads
  77. Back Cover

Jack dropped his napkin onto his plate. “Then we’re onto something. I’ll get people to dig into his background. See what we can come up with.”

Terra shoved her hair behind her ears, then hung her head. “I don’t want it to be Leif.”

Jack understood why Terra didn’t want to bring the investigation close to her brother. Her family was everything.

“Yet he suddenly shows up,” she added as she glanced up. “We need to know when he got to town.”

She took a bite of bacon.

“We’ll look into that. In the meantime, Montana State Lab will work on DNA from the nose ring. But we both know that could take months,” he said. “There’s something else. I found out more about Neva Bolz. You were right to suggest we search far and wide. She was a world traveler in her job as an oil consultant.”

Terra stopped chewing and stared at him. She swallowed. “Are you going to make me pull it out of you? Where exactly?”

“Algiers.”

“That could be the connection we’re looking for.” Terra sounded relieved to shift the conversation away from Leif and her brother. “Star Oil Company stumbles across an archaeological site during exploratory drilling. Neva somehow gets her hands on something of value and sells it on the black market. She gets connected, and since she travels to Algiers, her reach and her clients and connections grow.”

“It’s one theory,” he said.

“Jack, she was murdered. She’s definitely part of this.”

“We know she’s connected, and now we have an idea why,” he said. “Still, the only thing we know about her murderer is that he’s about six feet tall and sometimes wears a gray hoodie.”

Terra stared into her coffee. She had to be thinking what he was thinking.

Leif was also about six feet tall.

FORTY-THREE

Terra wished she wasn’t following Jack’s thinking, but how could she not?

If Leif was involved, then it logically followed that Owen could be as well. But she refused to believe that her brother could be part of this. And she held on to hope that Leif wasn’t their murderer. Because if he was, that would be too destabilizing for Owen. Terra rubbed her eyes as nausea rippled through her stomach. Time to move on to the next topic. “I’m going to talk to the curator myself today about the murder weapon found at his museum. I feel like there are some inconsistencies after reading the reports.”

“We can go together. But I think it’s a priority that we should shadow Leif. See where he goes while he’s here.”