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Chill of Fear

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by Kay Hooper


  “Madison. And this is Angelo. He was with us that night. He goes everywhere with me. Everywhere.”

  “You can both go now,” Diana said gently. “And be with your parents.”

  Madison sighed. “I thought they were here, you know. But . . . I was always good at imagining things. I guess I imagined them here. I miss them, though. Angelo and me, we’re ready to go now. Thank you.”

  “You’re welcome, Madison.”

  While they watched, the little girl carried her dog toward the doorway, fading into nothingness before reaching the hallway beyond.

  “Jesus,” Quentin said.

  Diana looked up at him, smiling a little. “Everything we went through last night, and you’re shaken by one little girl and her dog?”

  “Well . . . I’ve been seeing her. Clear as day.” He frowned suddenly. “Since the morning we met.”

  “Guess Missy was right. We connected.”

  After a moment, Quentin reached for her hand and held it firmly. “I guess we did. How do you feel about that?”

  “Hopeful.”

  “You’ll go back to Virginia with me?”

  “Well, I’ve got to meet Bishop.”

  “Diana.”

  Her smile widened. “I’ll make you a deal. You help me convince my father that despite the secrets he kept for my own good, I’m a sane and rational woman, and—we’ll go from there. Deal?”

  “Deal,” he replied, and kissed her.

  BANTAM BOOKS BY KAY HOOPER

  The Bishop Trilogies

  Stealing Shadows

  Hiding in the Shadows

  Out of the Shadows

  Touching Evil

  Whisper of Evil

  Sense of Evil

  Hunting Fear

  Chill of Fear

  The Quinn Novels

  Once a Thief

  Always a Thief

  Romantic Suspense

  Amanda

  After Caroline

  Finding Laura

  Hunting Rachel

  Classic Fantasy and Romance

  On Wings of Magic

  The Wizard of Seattle

  My Guardian Angel (anthology)

  Yours 2 Keep (anthology)

  CHILL OF FEAR

  A Bantam Book / August 2005

  Published by

  Bantam Dell

  A Division of Random House, Inc.

  New York, New York

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  All rights reserved.

  Copyright © 2005 by Kay Hooper

  Bantam Books is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hooper, Kay

  Chill of fear/Kay Hooper.

  p. cm.

  1. Government investigators—Fiction. 2. Psychics—Fiction. 3. Tennessee—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3558.O587 C48 2005b 2005045264

  813/.54 22

  Published simultaneously in Canada

  www.bantamdell.com

  eISBN: 978-0-553-90177-1

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