A Question of Ghosts

by Cate Culpepper

  “Sorry. I’m sorry,” she stammered. “But not here. I simply can’t carry on like trash in this meadow, not with the possible ghosts of my parents looking on.”

  Becca bit her lip, but Jo just grinned down at her.

  “All right. You’ll find I’m a patient woman. Tell me what you need from me now, Becca.”

  Becca thought about this. It didn’t take long.

  “First, I want to honor your impulse to feed me. I wouldn’t want to hurt your feelings by refusing this picnic. So now, we’re going to eat a lot of junk food.”

  “Of course.”

  “Then we’re going to drive to the nicest house on the beach, where we will enjoy three days of Becca School.”

  “That sounds delightful.”

  “And I’m going to drive.”

  “Of course.”

  The End

  About the Author

  Cate Culpepper has resided in Seattle for the past twenty years. She’s the author of the Tristaine series, Fireside, and River Walker. Her books have won three Golden Crown Literary Society Awards, a Lambda Literary Award, a Lesbian Fiction Readers’ Choice Award, and an Alice B. Medal for her body of work.

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  Table of Contents

  Synopsis

  By the Author

  Acknowledgments

  Dedication

  Prologue

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-one

  Chapter Twenty-two

  About the Author

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