Hideaway Cove (A Windfall Island Novel) by Anna Sullivan

Author:Anna Sullivan [Sullivan, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014-07-28T14:00:00+00:00

It stuck with her, the advice she’d given Paige. It stuck with her, Jessi realized, because it applied to her. She’d found that damn blanket and it had paralyzed her. She hadn’t been able to tell Maggie about it. She hadn’t even been able to think about telling Hold.

Worse, she’d done an out-of-sight, out-of-mind. She’d run away from her problem, just like Paige. It wasn’t the way she lived her life, ignoring what needed to be done. Because, she knew, the things you ignored had a way of sneaking up and biting you on the ass. So she’d face it.

First, though, she had to face Hold.

He’d come in an hour or so before and gone straight back to the little office. Before she could talk herself out of it, she got to her feet and went to his doorway. Hold was contemplating a section of the chart, half turned away from her. She stood there for a moment, just watching him.

He turned to face her, so tall and beautiful, with his dark blond hair just a little tousled, his handsome face lit with excitement.

“I received an e-mail this morning,” he said, still clutching it in his hand. He turned back to the chart, excited, distracted. “It’s the last off-island family I was tracking. They’re all ruled out now. You know what this means?” He turned to face her again. “Jessica?”

She swallowed again. “It means if there are any descendants, they’re still Windfallers.”

He frowned a little.

She’d schooled her expression, but something must have leaked through. “It’s great, Hold, really.”

“But it means we might have to put someone in danger,” he said, still watching her carefully.

“It means we should stop. Just stop until…I don’t know, until we know…something.”

“We won’t know anything if we stop.”

She walked in, joined him at the chart. She knew it almost as well Hold, could see where he’d finished the Colby family’s lineage to the point where it ended in a blunt double line after Eugenia’s generation.

Not too far away, her own section of the Windfall Island genealogy sat unfinished, waiting. As far as Jessi cared, it could wait unfinished forever.

“What’s troubling you?”

Being the Stanhope heir.

She’d joked about it before, only she’d refused to send in her DNA because, being the right age, there was an outside chance she could be Eugenia’s granddaughter—and whoever wanted to eliminate the possible heirs had already proven they wouldn’t wait for the results before taking lethal action.

She’d never really thought she was related to the Stanhopes. Since she’d found that blanket packed away in her attic like a cherished heirloom, though, she couldn’t stop thinking about being Eugenia’s descendant. It scared her to death. She slid her gaze away from the place where Claire Duncan, her great grandmother’s name, was listed, managed to meet Hold’s eyes. “I don’t like the idea of anyone being put in danger.”

“We can stop, but that just leaves Eugenia’s descendants unprotected.”

“If there are any descendants. What if we just announced that there aren’t any, Hold? Then there’s no reason to hurt anyone.

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