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Jess read the final paragraph of the newspaper article. He slumped into the library chair and absently rubbed his aching leg while he mulled over the report from ten years ago.

There had been no storm, no unusual wind, no sudden change in weather, the day his sister had gone sailing with a local man, Jimmy Herriot, son of Patrick Windom’s sworn enemy. Neither had returned from the excursion alive.

He considered the sparse details, then gave it up as his thoughts went in circles. Question after question chased through his mind. No answers, though.

The police write-up on the case should fill in a few of the blanks. He thought of the local detective who’d been so helpful about finding him a place to stay, Shannon Bannock, smiling that secret woman’s smile as she sent him to her cousin, the reclusive widow. He’d pictured Kate as a hermit of a woman.

Immediately an image of that first meeting sprang to mind—the sight of her in the wet clothing, the heat that had seared him, the slap of cold water from the writhing hose that hadn’t cooled his blood in the least….