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Chapters (50)
  1. Also by
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CHAPTER ONE
  5. CHAPTER TWO
  6. CHAPTER THREE
  7. CHAPTER FOUR
  8. CHAPTER FIVE
  9. CHAPTER SIX
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT
  12. CHAPTER NINE
  13. CHAPTER TEN
  14. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  15. CHAPTER TWELVE
  16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  21. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  22. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  43. CHAPTER FORTY
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  45. CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
  46. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
  47. CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR
  48. CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
  49. EPILOGUE
  50. Teaser Chapter

Fran seemed satisfied her advice had been taken. She was clearly the town gossip, or maybe it was just that there were so few people who lived in the area that gossiping was a sort of recreation.

“You know there is one thing that bothers me about living out at the ranch,” Ellie said as they headed for the checkout register.

“What’s that?”

“I heard Kade Logan’s wife was murdered and they recently found her car. It kind of makes me nervous, you know? I mean, they’ve never found the woman’s killer. He could be right there on the ranch.”

“Well, you don’t have to worry about Kade. That man worshipped his wife.” Fran sighed. “She was the most beautiful creature you ever did see. Tall and blond, like an angel. They were high school sweethearts, you know.”

“I heard that. Maybe now that they’ve found her car, they can find the guy who killed her.”

Fran leaned toward her. “Just between you and me, that woman was lucky someone didn’t kill her sooner. Why, she was always flirting with some fella. Didn’t matter if he was married or not. Liked to make men jealous. Kade just seemed to close his eyes. He didn’t want to lose her, I guess.”

“You think she and Jonas were . . . ?”

“No idea. If they were, I never heard.”

They reached the register, and Fran went behind the counter to ring up Ellie’s order. She paid for her purchases and left the store. As she walked down the street, she smiled. For her first few days on the case, she had gleaned a surprising amount of information.

She wondered what Kade would say about her upcoming lunch date with Jonas Murray.

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER SEVEN

KADE SAT BEHIND THE WHEEL, WITH ELLIE IN THE PASSENGER SEAT as he pulled the pickup around to the back of Murray’s Grocery. Jonas’s son, Sean, was waiting, and the two of them loaded the food and supplies into the bed of the truck.

“Thanks, Sean,” Kade said when they were finished. He liked the lanky teenager, who was a hard worker and always friendly.

Kade returned to his seat and cranked the engine, firing the truck up again. “Hungry?” he asked Ellie.

“Starved.”

He drove the truck out from behind the grocery store into the street. “So how’d it go? Learn anything useful?”

“Maybe. People were easy to talk to. I remember that’s the way it was when I was growing up in Wyoming. Frances Tilman over at Rocky Mountain Supply could be a well of information.”

“You got that right. Woman’s got her nose stuck in everybody else’s business.”

“She talked about you and your wife, among other things.”

Irritation trickled through him. He didn’t like the idea of people talking about him behind his back. “What did she say?”