I originally downloaded this book to my Kindle because the protagonist shares my daughter's name. I am *so* glad that I did. Darcy Sweet is a tremendously fun heroine! She owns a bookstore, is incredibly sassy, and has a greater than passing acquaintance with the supernatural. Death Comes to Town...
Darcy cleaned her cut up in the women's bathroom of the Misty Hollow police station. The office's first aid kit had an antibacterial ointment and it turned out that once the cut was cleaned and dried, it wasn't even that big, and it had already stopped bleeding. She still felt woozy but that wo...
She was pacing the length of her kitchen, backwards and forwards, until she could calm down somewhat. Only then could she admit that she was also really mad at herself. Why didn’t she trust him? She loved him, didn’t she? She should have talked to him right away about the vision she’d had instead...
"No. We wait," he said. "If he doesn't come down here, then we'll rush upstairs after him. He'll hear us coming if we go now. Don't want to spook him off." Good point, Rysen decided. The floorboards upstairs weren't the only things that were squeaky in the shop. So they waited while more th...
Pete and Anna had dated a long while ago, and had broken it off at least a year ago. She wondered what the two men had to talk about. Darcy tried to make out what they were saying but they were too far away for her to hear them. She saw Pete shake the Mayor’s hand and then Steve walked briskly aw...
Emrick (2014) This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and locations portrayed in this book and the names herein are fictitious. Any similarity to or identification with the locations, names, characters or history of any person, product or entity is entirely coincidental and uninte...
That’s how long, according to the clock on the wall, that Kevin was upstairs with Horace. I must’ve paced a little trench right through the floor with all that walking back and forth. When one of the guests asked me what we were serving for dinner I’m pretty sure I told her we were serving wate...
Emrick (2014) This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and locations portrayed in this book and the names herein are fictitious. Any similarity to or identification with the locations, names, characters or history of any person, product or entity is entirely coincidental and uninte...
The police had finished measuring the impact of the car part—a wheel strut, they said—that had shattered the front window. It had been taken away to be kept with the cars themselves for further investigation. Now it was up to them to put the shop back to rights. “We’ll n...
Emrick (2014) This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and locations portrayed in this book and the names herein are fictitious. Any similarity to or identification with the locations, names, characters or history of any person, product or entity is entirely coincidental and uninte...
Emrick (2014) This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and locations portrayed in this book and the names herein are fictitious. Any similarity to or identification with the locations, names, characters or history of any person, product or entity is entirely coincidental and uninte...
Emrick (2014) This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and locations portrayed in this book and the names herein are fictitious. Any similarity to or identification with the locations, names, characters or history of any person, product or entity is entirely coincidental and uninte...
Oscar and Florence Salvatore, husband and wife, had both died in 1947. The record of their burial plot in the Misty Hollow cemetery was the yellow highlighted line. The Town Clerk’s report was one of several. “Are you sure I should be in here?” Darcy asked, leaning over ...
Darcy swallowed, her throat suddenly dry and tight. Her mind raced in a thousand different directions at once. Where was Jon? Why was Helen here, and why was she calling for Darcy? What was that other voice talking through Helen? Well, she actually knew the answer to t...
Darcy hadn’t meant it to come out as a question but with so many dead ends resulting in nothing up to this point she was sure this would be another one.Sarah put her hands down on the edge of the booth’s counter. Henrietta swallowed but didn’t look away. “It’s you. It’s you,” Sarah kept repeating...
She had to smile as Smudge crawled under the couch for a moment only to re-emerge with an ornament in his mouth. He trotted over to her and dropped it at her feet.“Good boy. Are there anymore lying around anywhere? Our friend Roger certainly made a mess didn’t he? Who do you suppose he was?” Darc...
Now Rysen Morris couldn’t help but look at the quaint shops and pretty homes and wonder if she hadn’t outgrown her home town. Sales at her sister’s wine shop were up this month. The summer heat was driving the tourists in. Good thing, too, considering the luck Christina ...
Light streaked in through the bedroom window and she clamped her eyelids shut tighter against it, groaning and wishing she could sleep for another week. Then Jon’s body was laying across hers as he reached for the phone on bedside table. “Erngh,” sh...
Dell said to them when they came back down to the front desk. “But you know, we’ve got us a full kitchen right here at the Inn. My partner does all the cooking. Having beef tips tonight. She’d love to fix two more plates.” “Your partner?” Darcy asked. “So you’re marri...
Whatever. She sat up now in bed and stretched and reminded herself that part of her life was done. If she wanted to find a guy that enjoyed her body next to his, she couldn't spend all day in bed. In the bathroom she looked herself over in the mirror. Puffy eyes. Messy...