Shadow Silence by Yasmine Galenorn

Author:Yasmine Galenorn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-10T15:09:44+00:00

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The Crescent Moon Society wouldn’t be meeting until ten P.M., so I still had some time to kill. Deev and Bryan carried Peggin’s luggage up to the guest room over the office. Sometimes my house reminded me of a miniature castle. Upstairs over the master suite was my ritual room and the attic. Up a second staircase on the opposite side of the house, over the office, was my old bedroom, a guest room, and a jack-and-jill bath.

While Peggin unpacked, I decided to do a little sleuthing. She was better at computer snooping than I was by far, but I had learned a thing or two over the past couple of months. While Deev and Bryan went out to get takeout for later, I typed the name J. Jacobs into the search engine. After a moment I added the words Whisper Hollow, and boat. The search didn’t garner many returns, but the second link told me what I wanted to know.

In 1919, in November, Joseph Jacobs and four other people vanished on Lake Crescent when their ship went down. They were never found again. The ship had been named the Maria Susanna. MS. Of course, the initials on the beam. The article didn’t have much else to say except that Jacobs had built the Maria Susanna in 1915, and it had been considered extremely seaworthy. There had been a storm the night that it vanished and everyone assumed that the winds had sunk her.

I leaned back in my chair, staring at the screen. If the Maria Susanna had never been found, how did the keel beam and several of its ribs make their way into the Foggy Downs house? They had been adjacent the walls, but I wondered if they had been installed while the house was being built or added later on. According to the Realtor, if I remembered correctly, the house was built in 1920. I racked my brain, thinking that he had mentioned who the builder was but at the moment I couldn’t bring the name to mind. Maybe Peggin would remember.

When she came downstairs a little while later, she looked calmer and a little less frightened.

“Did you get the ferrets settled in?” We had stopped on the way back to the house and picked up Frith and Folly from the kennel. When they had taken her bags up, Bryan and Deev put together the ferrets’ cage.

She nodded, dropping into the chair opposite me. “Yes and they seem happy to see me again. They’ll be fine up there. I can let them out when I’m in my room.”

“Tomorrow we’ll fix it so that my old bedroom can be the ferret room and then you can leave them out longer. We can just shut them in there and they’ll be fine. There’s not much they can tear up.”

“Don’t be so sure about that,” she said with a laugh. “You haven’t seen ferrets when they’re on a rampage. I have to ferret proof my entire home, including most of the cupboards.

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