The Wishing Tide by Barbara Davis

Author:Barbara Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group, USA
Published: 2014-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

Michael was waiting at the door when Lane walked in, a pen behind his ear, his face full of questions. He took her keys and the stack of mail she was holding and placed them on the foyer table, then helped her off with her coat.

“Well?” he prompted, when the coat was finally hanging on the rack and she still hadn’t volunteered any news.

Lane wasn’t sure she was ready to rehash it all, especially with someone who wasn’t likely to see her side. Groaning, she kicked off her shoes, crossed the parlor, and sagged onto the couch.

“I just dropped her off at Hope House. They actually had her in a room when I got there, grilling her about the break-ins. I had to threaten to call my lawyer before they’d let her go.”

Michael snorted. “They think she’s behind the break-ins?”

“No. They just want it to look like they do. I ran into Landon earlier today. He informed me, quite proudly, too, that he plans to close Hope House, and means to use the break-ins to do it, even though they haven’t got a shred of evidence against anyone living there.”

“You think he hauled Mary in for questioning just to make it look good?”

“Something like that, yes. She also told me the mayor’s wife is pretending to volunteer while she pumps everyone for information.”

“Sounds like the man means business.”

“Yes, it does. And I have to figure out a way to stop him.”

“Lane, I know how you feel about this, but have you considered that getting mixed up in a local skirmish like this might be bad for business? We’re talking about the mayor and the chief of police. I’m not saying what they want to do is right. It’s not. But the deck is sort of stacked against you. These are powerful people you’re talking about, at least here in Starry Point.”

Lane sighed. She found Michael’s advice exasperating, probably because she’d been rolling something similar around in her head since she dropped Mary off at Hope House. It wasn’t like her to stick her neck out, to stir the pot and risk any kind of fallout. Yet here she was, ready to take on the world for a woman she barely knew.

No. That wasn’t true. She did know Mary, or at least knew her well enough to know she was in desperate need of a friend. Maybe it was the haunted look in those sea-colored eyes of hers, as if she’d lost some part of herself along the way and didn’t know how to get it back. Lane had seen that look before—in her own mirror. Broken. Empty. Lost.

She knew what it was like to feel lost in your own skin, to sift through your todays and find no trace of your yesterdays, to know life had shaken you so hard that parts of you had simply fallen away. Mary’s circumstances might have been different, but the end result was the same. She was alone and adrift, defenseless in a world bent on mowing her down.

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