1 - Saint's Gate by Carla Neggers

Author:Carla Neggers [Neggers, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2011-09-01T22:00:00+00:00

Colin stopped at Lucas Sharpe’s house in Heron’s Cove. Lucas had just arrived in his own sleek BMW and motioned for Colin to follow him inside after he introduced himself. “I was at a gallery opening in Portsmouth. The police found me and told me what they could.” Lucas paused in the entry of the old house. “Emma’s left me a string of messages. I haven’t reached her yet. What can you tell me?”

Colin filled him in and closely watched Lucas’s reaction.

What he saw was a brother’s pure, unadulterated concern for his only sibling. “I should have checked the vault myself,” Lucas said, moving back toward the door. “Excuse me. I have to go see my sister.”

“She’s gone to Boston.” Colin glanced around the house. It was smaller, simpler and older than he’d expected, and almost as empty as Wendell Sharpe’s house on the waterfront. “Your sister was a nun. Why?”

Lucas’s gaze, his eyes green like his sister’s, was steady, observant. “Who are you again?”

“Donovan. Colin Donovan. I’m from Rock Point.”

“The Donovan brothers,” Lucas said. “All right. What’s your interest?”

“I’m the FBI agent Donovan brother.”

“I see. All right. I never understood Emma’s decision to enter the convent, to be honest. We weren’t that religious growing up. I think she was caught up in romantic notions of what life at the Sisters of the Joyful Heart would be like. You’ve seen it up there—it’s a beautiful place.”

“Was there a precipitating incident? A death, a heartbreak? A vision? A movie?” Colin wasn’t even sure why he wanted to know, but he didn’t stop. “Did she want to turn into Julie Andrews and run away with Christopher Plummer?”

Lucas pulled off his overcoat and slung it over a side chair in the entry. There was no rug, just the worn pine-board floor. “Emma was a serious student and took right to the work of our family business.”

“Your father’s disabled—”

“I don’t think his accident had anything to do with her decision. One day she was in college. The next day she was up at the Sisters of the Joyful Heart. It wasn’t that simple, but it seems like it looking back.” Lucas hesitated. “You should talk to her.”

Colin heard the windows rattling in the gusty wind. “What about your grandfather?”

“He’s semiretired. He’ll stay active in the business, but he’s closing his Dublin office. I have someone in mind to take over.”

“Another Sharpe?”

“No. My parents are likewise semiretired. They’re in London at the moment. We all call Heron’s Cove home.” Lucas stood back. “Is Emma all right?”

“Do you worry about her?”

“She’s my little sister. She’s got a Donovan on her ass. What do you think?”

That was a good point. “What about your former girlfriend, Ainsley d’Auberville?”

Lucas’s eyes narrowed. “I’m cooperating fully with law enforcement.”

“I am law enforcement, ace,” Colin said.

A Maine CID car rolled in. Colin didn’t take time for more questions. He had an ex-nun FBI agent to find.

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