Forest Outings (A Coffee and Crime Mystery Book 3)

by Nan Sampson

  The façade was Courier and Yves perfect but at the moment, it lacked character. They’d soon fix that with the gardens she had in mind to plant. She smiled contentedly and called up in her mind the image of her old friend Lacey Silberson, whose largesse in part had made all this possible. Not to mention having saved her life in that frozen lake.

  “Well, Lacey, what do you think? Not your taste, I know, but a good use of a small part of all your loot, right? Taking misery and turning into something good?” It had cost more than she’d bargained for, but even so there was still more than enough left to cover the cost of Kaela, Kyle and Kirby’s college expenses.

  The wind soughed in the branches of an old oak above her, and Ellie nodded. “I thought you’d like it.”

  She stepped up onto the porch – her porch – and imagined it decorated with wicker furniture and hanging baskets of ferns. As she entered the house, she sensed, within the cozy remodeled interior, a kindred, wounded spirit that was slowly healing. Just like she was.

  About the Author

  Nan Sampson has been writing stories since she was old enough to hold a crayon. She writes primarily mysteries, fantasy and space opera – sometimes all at once. She also gardens (and indeed, some of the plants actually grow!), foists herbal concoctions off on friends and co-workers, reads voraciously, and dreams of one day living on a space station, where she will use her education in Anthropology, Linguistics and Psychology to build trust with the alien life forms mankind will one day encounter.

  Until that happens, she makes her home northwest of Chicago with her husband, teenage daughter and Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson (aka, the very pushy poodle).

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