By Deborah Crombie
Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James hasn't ever suggestion to query her buddy Hazel Cavendish approximately her earlier. So it really is particularly a surprise whilst Gemma learns that their vacation retreat to a lodge within the Scottish Highlands is, in truth, Hazel's homecoming -- and that fellow visitor Donald Brodie used to be Hazel's lover, regardless of a vicious, long-standing feud among their rival, effective whiskey distilling households. And the fires of a fierce and passionate affair would possibly not have burned out thoroughly -- on Brodie's half at the least, due to the fact that he is ready to smash Hazel's marriage to win again his "Juliet." but if a surprising, brutal homicide unleashes a slew of sinister secrets and techniques and long-seething hatreds, placing Hazel's existence in danger, Gemma understands she is going to need assistance unraveling this very bloody knot -- and demands the single guy she trusts greater than the other, Duncan Kincaid, to hitch her faraway from domestic ... and in harm's approach.
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She eased him out of his coat. ” “Hush, now,” she said again, knowing sensation would return soon enough, and that when it did the pain would be intense. ” Will came back into the kitchen, carrying a pile of blankets. Together they stripped Charles of the remainder of his clothing and wrapped him in heavy wool, then they half-carried him into the parlor and installed him on the settee. The peats were blazing in the hearth, and the room had already lost some of its chill. ” asked Will. “Should I—” “In the barn,” Charles murmured, blinking.
Idly, he picked up the post from the kitchen table and leafed through it. There were bills and credit card applications, the usual circulars, and at the bottom of the stack, a thick, cream-colored envelope. Opening it 36 Deborah Crombie curiously, he unfolded a sheaf of legal-looking papers. He read the document once, then again, the words sinking in. The letter came from a firm of solicitors representing his former mother-in-law, Eugenia Potts. Kit’s grandmother was suing for custody. 3 � The hue of Highland rivers Careering full and cool, From sable onto golden, From rapid on to pool.
Blinking against the sting of tears, she smiled at her son. “Och, your father’s made it home, Will, when many a man wouldn’t. ” Callum’s aunt Janet stood in the door of the stable, her hands on her hips, glaring at him. She was a formidable sight at the best of times, a square, blunt-featured woman, with her graying hair cut short and a face permanently scoured by the Highland winds. Angry, she looked even fiercer, and Callum found himself struggling for a coherent reply. He was never very good at expressing himself aloud, although he did well enough in his own head, and with the murmured singsong understood by the horses and dogs.