The Librarian's Secret Scandal by Jennifer Morey

Author:Jennifer Morey
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Man-Woman Relationships, Librarians, Women Librarians, General, Romance, Suspense, Sheriffs, Fiction, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780373276943
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-09-01T07:00:00+00:00

Lily stood from her desk at nine and started toward the door. What a long day. It was time to close the library.

Something crashed behind her. Glass shattered. With a strangled yell, she turned and saw a flaming ball hit her desk and roll onto the floor in front of her feet. She’d been sitting at the desk just seconds before that. She might have been hit in the head.

Running out into the library, she found a fire extinguisher and ran back to her office. Flames swirled over the surface of her desk, burning the papers she’d studied only moments before. More flames burned the carpet where the ball of fire had come to rest. Smoke began to fill the office. She sprayed the fire extinguisher just as the fire alarm went off and the overhead sprinkler shot on.

The fire was extinguished.

Lily heard her own breathing along with the sprinklers and felt her pulse ricocheting against her ribs and throat.

She went to the broken window and peered outside. She didn’t expect to see anyone, but she did. A shadow standing behind the library. Pushing up the window, she coughed and waved the smoky air as it floated past her and out the window.

The shadow moved, taking the shape of a person running down the alley.

Lily ran from her office, jumping over the charred floor. She raced down the hall and burst through the back door. Sprinting down an alley, she skidded to a halt where it ended at a side street.

A car engine fired up. She ran toward it, trying to see the license plate. It was dark so she couldn’t see much of anything. The car pulled away from the curb and sped away. It looked like a midsize car, a Buick or a Toyota. It was a dark color, too. Black or blue or green, maybe. She couldn’t tell.

She stopped running, breathing hard from exertion.

The sound of sirens made her turn and head back to the library. Reaching the back door, she went inside the smoky-smelling library and made her way to the front. By the time she got there, a fire truck had arrived. Outside, she approached the first fireman she saw.

“We got a call from someone who said they saw smoke,” the fireman said.

“Someone threw something flammable through the window of my office,” she told him.

“Is anyone else inside?”

She shook her head. “I was just about to lock up and go home.”

Another siren sounded and Lily watched Wes’s SUV come to a stop behind the fire truck, parking at an angle in his haste, a thin bar of lights flashing along the top of the windshield.

“You wait here while we check inside,” the fireman said.

She absently nodded and the fireman left to do his job, though he and his team would find no fire to battle. They’d ensure the building was safe and be gone before too long.

As Wes neared, she saw the worry etching his expression.

“What happened?” he demanded.

She repeated what she’d just told the fireman and he cursed.

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