Hit and Run in Cherry Hills
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But if Andrew could tell she was fibbing he didn’t let on. “What time is she getting here?” he asked.
“It’s a five-hour drive from Estacada, so any minute now.”
“Would you like me to leave?”
“What?” Kat sat up. “You mean because my mother’s coming?”
“If you don’t want her to meet me—”
“No.” She laid her hand on his wrist. “It’s not like that at all. I’d love for you to be here when she shows up.”
Andrew relaxed, a smile breaking out on his face. The sight of his twin dimples sent guilt swirling in Kat’s stomach. She hadn’t confessed the real reason why she wanted him here, and it wasn’t so she could introduce him to her mother as one would a serious boyfriend. It was so he could act as a buffer if things didn’t go well between them.
“I don’t even know what to call her,” Kat said. “She was Maybelle Harper when she lived here. Then there was all that business about her having to flee town and hide out, and now she goes by Kelly Watson.”
“You don’t call her Mom?”
She shook her head. Although she thought of Maybelle as her mother, ‘Mom’ suggested a level of familiarity that wasn’t there. Maybelle had barely been around during Kat’s childhood, and, until recently, she had been completely absent from her adulthood.
“I’ll just go with Maybelle,” she decided. “That’s how I think of her anyway.”
The buzzer rang, and Kat’s stomach flip-flopped. Maybelle Harper had arrived.
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Books in the Cozy Cat Caper Mystery series:
Book 1: Murder in Cherry Hills
Book 2: Framed in Cherry Hills
Book 3: Poisoned in Cherry Hills
Book 4: Vanished in Cherry Hills
Book 5: Shot in Cherry Hills
Book 6: Strangled in Cherry Hills
Book 7: Halloween in Cherry Hills
Book 8: Stabbed in Cherry Hills
Book 9: Thanksgiving in Cherry Hills
Book 10: Frozen in Cherry Hills
Book 11: Hit & Run in Cherry Hills
Book 12: Christmas in Cherry Hills
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paige Sleuth is a pseudonym for mystery author Marla Bradeen. She plots murder during the day and fights for mattress space with her two rescue cats at night. When not attending to her cats’ demands, she writes. She loves to hear from readers, and welcomes emails at paige.sleuth@yahoo.com.