by Tamar Myers
“Forget it, dear, it’s over.”
“No, it isn’t!” Mama grabbed my arm and squeezed it hard. “Remember that angel I showed you, Abby?”
“Pleeeeease,” I wailed. “I saw you make a fool of yourself on TV—”
“Well, this fool,” Mama said, squeezing harder, “charged thirty thousand people ten dollars each to see that angel. Abby, dear, you’re rich.”
“You’re joking,” I said, and fainted. Not a mere swoon, mind you, but an out-and-out dead faint.
If it weren’t for Mama’s grip, and the surprisingly strong arms of Buster, I would have slid under the tablecloth to join Dmitri.
About the Author
TAMAR MYERS, whose parents were missionaries in the Belgian Congo, was born and lived the first sixteen years of her life among a tribe of headhunters. Of Amish background, she writes a highly successful Amish-set mystery series of NAL. Tamar currently lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she is at work on her next novel.
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Praise for
TAMAR MYERS
“Professionally plotted and developed, and fun to read.”
San Francisco Valley Times
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Den of Antiquity Mysteries by
Tamar Myers
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LARCENY AND OLD LACE
GILT BY ASSOCIATION
THE MING AND I
SO FAUX, SO GOOD
BAROQUE AND DESPERATE
ESTATE OF MIND
A PENNY URNED
NIGHTMARE IN SHINING ARMOR
SPLENDOR IN THE GLASS
TILES AND TRIBULATIONS
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
BAROQUE AND DESPERATE. Copyright © 2007 by Tamar Myers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © JANUARY 2007 ISBN: 9780061861864
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