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Hope's Crossing #1
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June 2011
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Featuring: Riley McKnight; Claire Bradford
384 pages
ISBN: 0373775938
EAN: 9780373775934
Kindle: B004XDWULW
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"We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly
embracing each other."
—Luciano de Crescenzo
Lousy, stupid horoscope.
Claire Bradford stood with one hand on the doorway and
the other clutching her coffee go-cup as she stared at the
chaotic mess inside her store.
According to the stars—at least according to the
horoscope in the Hope Gazette she'd scanned while standing
in line at her friend Maura's coffee shop for her morning
buzz after dropping the kids off at school—she was supposed
to prepare herself for something fun and exciting headed her
way today. She had been thinking more along the lines of a
few dozen new customers at her bead store or maybe a big
commission on one of her more intricate custom pieces.
Discovering that String Fever had been burglarized during
the night didn't exactly fit her personal definition of
either fun or exciting.
Beads covered the beige berber in a glittery, jumbled
disaster as apparently someone had yanked out an entire vast
display of tiny clear drawers and dumped their contents all
over the floor. Her cash register drawer was open and the
small amount of cash she kept on hand to make change was
missing. Her office door had been left ajar, too, something
she never did, and even from here, she could see a big,
dusty, empty spot on her desk where her computer should be.
She could handle the material loss and her computer was
automatically backed up off-site several times a day. The
mess, on the other hand, would be a nightmare to clean up.
Claire gave a tiny whimper and closed her eyes, dreading the
hours and days of work ahead of her, re-sorting all those
scattered beads into their hundreds of proper compartments.
String Fever was hanging by a thread anyway in the uncertain
economy. How could she afford the time and energy involved
in setting things to rights again?
Chester whined beside her, his basset hound features even
more morose than usual. He was uncanny at picking up her
emotions. She scratched behind his acres-long ears. "I know,
buddy. Sucks, doesn't it?"
She dug in her coat pockets to find where she'd stowed
her cell phone so that she could dial 9-1-1. She had only
punched in one number before the phone vibrated in her hand
and suddenly the nuclear meltdown alert ringtone she had
programmed for her mother sounded its death knell through
the empty store.
Yeah, not much fun or excitement there, either. Rotten
horoscope.
Chester whined again. He hated that ringtone as much as
she did. Claire swallowed her groan and despite thirty-six
years of better instincts, she hit the talk button to accept
the call. Ruth Tatum had trained her daughter well. "Mom, I
can't talk right now. Sorry. The store has been robbed. I'll
call you back as soon as I can, okay?"
"Robbed? You've got to be kidding!"
"Really, Mom? You think I'd joke about something like this?"
"How would I know?" Ruth went on the defensive, as she
did so well. "You've always had a weird sense of humor."
Yeah. That was her. Making up stories about her store
being robbed just to go for the cheap laugh. "I'm not
joking. The store really has been robbed."
"That's terrible! What did they take?"
"I don't know yet. I just walked in the door and barely
had a chance to even react before you called. I need to go
so I can call the police, Mom."
"Well, call me as soon as you can and tell me what's
going on. Do you need me to come down there?"
Sure, like she needed to stick a couple dozen earring
hooks in her eyeballs. "Not right now. Thanks for the offer,
though. I'll call you later."
She hung up and quickly dialed the police.
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