Courtney was alive. Her sister was alive. She turned the idea over and over in her mind, trying to find a reason it might not be true. The note might be a hoax. But what would anyone have to gain through such a trick? Anna didn’t know, and anyway, the idea that Courtney was out there somewhere filled her with such hope she couldn’t let it go once she’d tested the feeling. She wondered if Courtney, wherever she was, knew about Ted’s upcoming trial, how she’d be portrayed as a lying slut by both the prosecution and the defense.
Anna bolted up in bed, suddenly wide awake. The trial. Ted Parker. What would happen to him if Courtney came back from the dead? They’d want Courtney to testify. And what if Courtney had murdered Hugh? It was a crazy thought, but why had she disappeared? She needed answers, and Courtney hadn’t given her enough clues. Anna grabbed her laptop before realizing she had no information to go on.
The laptop beeped, and she reflexively checked her email inbox. A message from an address she didn’t recognize—it looked like spam, from some place called Rahim’s Rare Books:
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About the Author
It was once rumored that Kristen O’Toole read all of the books in the public library of her hometown of Westwood, Massachusetts. Since then, she has studied English and creative writing, worked in book stores and publishing, and lived in the most literary borough of New York City (Brooklyn). She still wishes that rumor were true.
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
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