“Ask Manning. I quit smoking. It only enhanced my potty mouth.”
Manning messed with me, pointing to my purse where sure enough, I might had some cigarettes. Not too many.
Chapter Sixty-Two
FOR EVERY SEASON, A TIME TO HEAL
TRACY INVITED ME over to an early baby shower. Her family embraced the unborn child. She finally admitted to me that she was the one that held onto those old stupid racial stigmas when those that taught them to her had long ago forgotten. Of course, she still wondered what happened to Michael Scores. So did I, but I didn’t go there. We had a new baby to bring into the world. There was a comment she made about her going green. Kermit the frog green.
Schlep and Carson were best buds. It didn’t concern me, businesswise. He very well might be a natural dad, as long as he doesn’t try and teach the kiddos calculus too early.
I did peek into the Falls & Falls bag before I delivered it to Jaxon Giles in the hospital. A brilliant canary diamond engagement ring. Jessica would and did approve.
The surprise email delighted me. My old college roommate wants to move to Tucson. She was a mucky-muck brilliant attorney in D.C., and then she did some pro-bono work in a sleepy town in Colorado. She wanted to know if we could hang out a shingle together. That intrigued me. I love Breecie Lemay.
My agent and publisher both loved my synopsis for my new book. Bye Bye Bones. Something about bodies disappearing, in totality, within a vat of muriatic acid.
And the most amazing ending of all? I was sleeping in my bed, spooned next to the most amazing man, Marcos Giuliani.
The bedroom windows were open, accepting the awesome scents after a gentle rain. The creosote and one lone pine filled my bedroom with total aromatherapy for the soul.
My pupcakes, Finnegan and Phoebe, heard it first.
Then me. The purring.
My beautiful cat, Daphne, was home.
The odds were so much against her in the desert but I never relinquished hope. That feeling I get and I trust.
I couldn’t save those women. They were long gone. But I had a survivor.
Coming soon!
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Private investigator Cassidy Clark travels to Italy.
The world she is about to enter includes a dead best friend, high-speed Italian trains, drugs, the mafia, and perilous connections between Italy and Tucson.
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Here’s what the Master of Suspense, Sidney Sheldon, said about the Mistress to Romantic Suspense, Author Lala Corriere—
“Her writing is provocative and fast-paced, with vivid descriptions and skillfully crafted dialogue. Real page-turners.”
USA TODAY has reviewed Corriere’s works as “Must read suspense”.
Corriere does it again, introducing Cassidy Clark as her new [series] private investigator.
Red herrings fly off of the pages, along with the snappy dialogue we’ve learned to know as a Corriere trademark.
With her original voice and tedious research, we can’t wait to read the next Cassidy Clark novel.
~The Virtual Scribe~
As always, to Chuck Corriere.
My number one fan I am honored to have on my team.
In loving memory:
Candace Gergen
Bonnie Lee Lewis
Posthumous thanks to Sidney Sheldon, the Master of Suspense, for his support, guidance and mentoring.
Credits & Special Acknowledgements:
Editor: Alexis Powers
Cover: Concepts by Jessica Rubin.
Design and layout by Valerie Howard
Special font by Rene Crol
EXPERTISE TEAM:
Gary Tillman, concept
Kenny DelPrincipe, police procedure
Andy Law, weaponry
Kristy Tedesco, news anchor
And to the friend that wishes to remain anonymous because of inherent danger.
BETA TEAM:
Sue Carton
Joanne Holcomb
Charlotte J. Parker
Sheila Willson
From bestselling novelist
Lala CORRIERE
Author of
Widow’s Row
CoverBoys & Curses
Evil Cries
Kiss and Kill
Bye Bye
Bones
A CASSIDY CLARK NOVEL
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