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Chapter One

He’s been dead for two years Two long, lonely years

At ti since she lost him, and at others…it felt all too possible She , the pain just deepened and split her open inside, like a huge, jagged chaso away no matter how much time passed

“Next up on the Augusta Eye Witness News, tragedy on Sixth Street” The newscaster on the television gave a half s to show perfectly white teeth “Police were dispatched to a home on the fourteenth block of Greene Street today in response to a dounpoint, but the Maine State Police were able to end the standoff with no casualties More to coht”

Daisy tightened her grip on her e down at the cast on her ar”

A o, she’d been on a case similar to that one The perp had been an abusive husband who’d been two bottles of cheap whiskey into a binge When she’d tried to take him down, he evaded her on a fire escape, and when she tried to follow him, she’d slipped on the wetSo now she was stuck on desk duty until it healed, while the asshole who’d thought beating his wife and then fleeing doet fire escape had been a good idea walked free…after his wife dropped charges

It killed her that she wasn’t out on the streets, doing what she did best…saving lives Without her job, without her passion, she was floundering in the middle of the ocean without even a hope of a rescue boat co to save her It ho she was

And now she was stuck with nothing

Her phone buzzed, and she glanced down at the text

It was her best friend, Lauren Are you there yet?

Daisy rolled her eyes and picked up the phone Yes, mother

I can’t help it that I’m worried about you