She and Kay would be most vulnerable to an attack by fire; the rooms on the second floor had wide windows and a relatively easy drop into thick shrubbery below. "That's ingenious," she said. "Rosemary's past, you mean?" "She's the focus," Nick insisted. "Maybe I'm unduly influenced by the political angle, but that's the nightmare of every campaign staff—the fear that the candidate has something nasty lurking in the closet, disclosure of which could wreck his chances. Rosemary has run for office before, but those were shoo-ins, virtually uncontested races. This is different. This could lead ... all the way to the top. Buzz Bennett isn't the only one who would pay any price to get something damaging on Rosemary. " "Agreed. But Nick, if Bennett knew about the skeleton in the closet, he wouldn't play cat and mouse, he'd just leak it to the press. Wouldn't he?" "I would think so. I've been over this again and again, and I can't make sense of it either. But I'll be damned if I'm going to sit here like a toad on a rock and wait for the next fire.
