Antonia realized they were just trying to distract her. They’d rehashed the events on the island all through the storm, tried to make sense of Robert Prancer and his motives, his reasoning, but he clearly operated according to his own logic, reacting to events according to whatever he was feeling at the time. He’d never had a clear, specific, calculated plan, which, in a way, made him even more frightening. There was no way to predict what he’d do. Taunt her. Scare her. Hurt her. Kill her.

But she and Gus and Carine, and Nate, were a family who’d seen their share of crises, and they knew how to deal with them.

Hank tucked stray locks of her hair behind her ear. “Looks like I need to conduct an impromptu press conference.”

She nodded. “They’ll want to know everything.”

“I plan to tell them everything. I’m a man who was worried about the woman I love, and I went to her.” He kissed her on the forehead. “Do you want to be there?”

“At your side?” She smiled, kissing him softly. “Always.”

* * * * *

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Excerpt from Saint's Gate by Carla Neggers

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the gripping first book in the Sharpe and Donovan series by

NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Carla Neggers.

Available only from MIRA Books.

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Emma Sharpe steeled herself against the sights and sounds of her past and kept up with the nervous woman rushing ahead of her in the dense southern Maine fog. They came to a tall iron fence, a folk-art granite statue of Saint Francis of Assisi glistening with drizzle among purple coneflowers and cheerful golden daylilies by the gate.

The little bird perched on Saint Francis’s shoulder still had a couple of missing tail feathers.