“Can I talk to you privately for a moment?” Somehow this sounded like more bad news. Ignoring the knot in her stomach, Abby smiled. “Sure. What’s up?” “I’ve had some cash flow problems lately and I’m behind on some of my bills. Miller’s Horse Farm w...
“There are no guarantees, but if we follow through with this we’ll find out once and for all if Kendra’s the gunman’s primary target. Once we know that, our other questions will be answered, too.”“I don’t like this at all, but I don’t see a way around it either,” Preston said, then continued. “If...
“We’re deliberately keeping the room hot to see if we can wear him down a little. In a while I’ll go in and question him. You watch from here.” “Bruce has always seemed more pathetic than dangerous to me, but I was never afraid of him. Maybe I should have been,” Erin whisp...
This was Main Street, downtown Independence, the oldest part of the community. There were about twenty shops lining the narrow street, which had been laid out when cars and horse-drawn wagons competed for space. It was easy to imagine what the town had looked like a hundred years ago.  ...
She didn’t believe in omens, but she didn’t dismiss them outright, either. She’d learned at an early age that New Mexico was the land of the unexplained. Here, the mysterious existed along with the ordinary, each finding its own place. As she stepped inside the main room, ...