Deadly Harvest by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thriller
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2008-02-27T05:00:00+00:00

11

Rowenna stood by the doorway, watching Jeremy as he walked away.

He really didn’t remember last night, when he’d been standing at the bottom of the bed, naked and sound asleep, talking to someone who wasn’t there.

But at least he was going to come get her at the museum, so there would be no reason to go back to that house by herself.

She wondered why she was so afraid of something that seemed so simple. If she was afraid of anything, it should be the fact that there was a killer on the streets, a killer who did terrible things to his victims. And she was afraid, of course, but she was going to be intelligent and stay in the company of friends.

And then there were the dreams. She was afraid of her own dreams.

She really didn’t need to fixate on Jeremy’s, too.

But her own dreams were something that she needed to pursue. Because that was where she had first seen the corpse in the cornfield. And if she could figure out how to access what she saw in her subconscious…

“Ready?”

She turned. The others had joined her at the door.

“Did you say an extra goodbye to your special friend?” Eve teased.

“What is this? Are we back in high school?” Rowenna demanded. “Let’s not forget that he’s here because a friend of his is missing.”

“I don’t want to think about it,” Eve told her. “I want to enjoy the fall, and I want to be a little bit happy. We can’t take every death to heart or we’ll go crazy. Do I sound terrible?”

Daniel stared at her, arching a brow. “How about we go show Rowenna those nasty masks in your store? There’s a cheerful thought for you.”

Eve shot him an icy look, then lifted her chin and hurried away, carrying her to-go box of sushi.

The other two grinned and followed.

Eve had been busy, or rather, Eve and Adam had been busy, Rowenna thought. The front window was enticing, draped in a majestic purple, with a dazzling display of silver jewelry and seasonal decorations. Colorful leaves were strewn seemingly at random against the purple backdrop, and Thanksgiving and harvest-themed items were arranged in eye-catching ways.

As they entered, bells chimed softly from above the door. Adam looked up and acknowledged them, then went back to showing a customer what was clearly one of Eric’s ghoulish masks.

“Ugh,” Eve whispered. “Come on back and see the rest.”

As they passed the counter, Eve set Adam’s lunch beside him, then led the way to the back of the store.

And there they were.

Carved wood, for the most part, they had been enhanced with various materials. From one, glass eyes gazed out with a malevolence that was truly frightening. Another had horns fashioned from discarded deer antlers. Another sported what seemed to be genuine goat horns. Some were painted, but it was the plain wood masks that seemed the most eerie to Rowenna. They were like dark figures that the imagination could see in the natural knots of a tree.

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