Mercy Street by Mariah Stewart

Author:Mariah Stewart [Stewart, Mariah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance Suspense
ISBN: 9780345492265
Google: eopW2zjhbAkC
Amazon: 0345492277
Goodreads: 2241749
Publisher: Ballantine
Published: 2008-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The covered bridge was painted barn red and ran over the widest part of Coyote Creek sixty miles east of Pittsburgh. Susanna Jones was headed back to Conroy from her weekend away—one that hadn’t been particularly profitable, but then again, for the most part, none of her trips had been. Disappointed that she hadn’t accomplished more, she consoled herself with the thought that at least she was being proactive. That had to count for something.

She drove slowly, the bridge being narrow even for one vehicle, then picked up speed when she was back on the road. Coyote Creek Road, barely two lanes wide, wound around the mountain like a snake. How the people who lived up here managed in winter was one of life’s mysteries, not that she’d seen many houses since she’d turned off first the Pennsylvania Turnpike, then the main road that ran through the small town of Ogden and onto this sidetrack. Those she did see weren’t all that close together. It appeared that people in this part of the country liked their solitude.

The car picked up speed as it headed downhill, and she eased her foot onto the brake. There were many quick twists and turns, and with the bright light of the late-afternoon sun slanted at exactly the wrong angle through the windshield, it wouldn’t take much to go off the side of the road. She was into another hairpin turn almost before she realized it, and she had to hit the brake solidly to avoid scraping along the guardrail on the right side. She craned her neck to look over the rail.

“Like falling off the edge of the earth,” she muttered, wondering just how often cars had gone off the road in this exact spot.

She drove until she found a place where there was sufficient clearing on the shoulder to allow her to park safely, then got out of the car. She walked back to the turn, stepping around the side of the guardrail to look down.

“Some serious rocks there,” she murmured as she picked her way around to the other side of the battered and scraped railing to study the vegetation. It was dense but not impenetrable. A car that went off the road here would easily be discovered if enough people were looking for it.

Convinced that this was not the right place, Susanna walked back down the road to her own car. She debated whether to head back home or to go a little farther on Coyote Creek Road.

“Oh, what the hell. I’m already here.” She turned the key in the ignition and pulled back onto the road.

After all, she reasoned, you never knew what you might find around that next bend in the road. And if not the next, perhaps then the one after that or the one after that.

What she did know was that Robert Magellan would never be at peace until his wife and son were found. If it took every weekend for the rest of her life, Susanna

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