Chapter 13

Stabbed through the heart. Her picture. Her knife. Both precious memories she'd thought lost in the fire. Twisted now into something ugly.

Long after Judd's officers had left, long after the scene had been processed and she'd gone through her encounter with her father at Dinner Belles, Autumn lay awake thinking about the message he'd left her. It hadn't been him, of course. A sentry had been posted to watch him after Judd heard about the diner, and he hadn't left the motel. But they'd been operating under the assumption he had someone else being his eyes, ears, and legs. The idea of it terrified her. Jebediah himself might have been limited in what he could do, but whoever was acting for him wasn't.

How far was that person willing to go to carry out her father's vendetta?