Kirjahaku

In this touching story of family bonds and emotional courage, Catlyn Stacey has survived her best friend's murder, the death of the man who loved her, and the nightmare of her own kidnapping. Now she must survive the trauma that lingers on. Surrounded by caring people, Catlyn perceives a future in the person of an orphaned child, the support of an ad hoc family, and the inspiring words found in a two-hundred-year-old diary written by a distant ancestor. Through them, Catlyn discovers a deep inner strength, a future, and the fortitude of love. "Like the crackle of an ember, it is vibrant with its livid certainty. Like the flush of echoes in an empty shell, it is delicate in its subtlety."

It was a mystery what she was doing in that courtyard. A wicked winter storm raging with fierce winds made it highly improbable. She hated the cold. Yet, that's where her slain body was found dressed only in nightclothes.Was she forced into it? Coerced? Lured? Pursued?The blunt force trauma was clear. Not so, the motive. The victim had no enemies. She wasn't violated. Nothing was stolen. She was just murdered.Detective Cynthia "Syd" Brogan has to wonder how a quiet woman living a quiet life meets a violent death in a peaceful community of senior citizens.Was it a mistake, or was it a meticulous crime fashioned by a disturbed mind? Perhaps it was jealousy or greed? Could it have been revenge? It's hard to tell when the circumstances are distorted by a tangled history of disconnected motives stretching forty years into the past.