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      Quickly locking the door, Michaele dialed the phone with trembling fingers.

      On the fourth ring, he answered. “Yeah?”

      “Jared, thank God.” His strong though irritated voice had her instantly forgiving what had transpired between them earlier. “I know I should have called the station, but I—”

      “Michaele? What’s wrong?”

      “I think Faith is missing.”

      He was silent for several seconds. “Come again?”

      “She never got home, and I just got this awful call—”

      “Stay put,” he snapped. “I mean it. Don’t go outside. Do nothing until I get there.”

      “But I haven’t told you—”

      He hung up.

      As soon as she replaced the phone receiver and looked out the parted kitchen-door curtains, out beyond the moths circling dizzily in the porch light to the indecipherable darkness beyond, the skin along her arms and at the back of her neck began tingling and her heart beat wildly.

      Someone could be standing just beyond, maybe hiding as close as beyond the wrecker, watching her….

      “Ms. Myers never fails to give the reader an entertaining story with fresh characterizations and dialogue that sparkles.”

      —Rendezvous

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      DEAD END

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      Helen R. Myres

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      Acknowledgments

      With every book a writer’s list of indebtedness grows. I would like to thank the following…

      Ethan Ellenberg, not only for his input into this story, but for all the support, wisdom and perseverance from day one of our association.

      Robert and Lacy Cooper, and Linda Varner Palmer for getting me through that ill-timed computer crash.

      Betty and Cindy Meece for bunches, but most of all the Linda Vachon print. You did, indeed, inspire.

      For answering questions and sharing anecdotes…

      Wayne Bryant

      Bobby Cole

      Carol and C. F. David

      Brad Taylor

      RCR

      And to Burt, whose real “Precious” inspired Michaele into taking on that Cameo restoration in the first place. I can only hope that hers would have come out half as good as yours did.

      Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

      —Thomas Carlyle

      Contents

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Chapter 32

       Chapter 33

       Chapter 34

       Chapter 35

       Chapter 36

       Chapter 37

       Chapter

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