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Elaine frowned "She comes from an unfortunate faht be suicidal"

Yates sipped his coffee "There’s another possibility"

They all looked at hiument," Yates said quietly

"My God," Elaine whispered "Are you saying she ht have been pushed off the path?"

Hannah planted her hands on the table "Wait a second Are you suggesting that Rafe Madison killed Kaitlin?"

"Could have been an accident," Yates said "Like I said, ht"

"But that’s crazy Why would Rafe do such a thing?"

"Word around town is that he didn’t like the fact that she was seeing other men," Yates said

"Yes, but--"

Ha to use you for an alibi, honey I don’t like hi you into this one damn bit But I’ll deal with that later"

"Dad, listen to ht now you just need to tell Yates where you were last night between "

Hannah braced herself for the explosion she kneould follow "I ith Rafe Madison"

Kaitlin Sadler’s death was officially ruled an accident three days later It took a lot longer for the firestorossip to fade The news that Hannah had been with Rafe Madison the night Kaitlin died swept through the small community with the force of a tsunaed only in casual conversation

The one person who seeenuinely happy about the fact that Rafe and Hannah had spent thole hours together on a hty-three, Isabel was the sole self-avowed rolish lit who had never e three-story mansion her father had built with the fortune he had

It was Isabel who had provided the seed funding for Harte-Madison, the commercial real estate development company founded by Sullivan Harte and Mitchell Madison all those years ago The bitter feud that had destroyed the firm as well as the friendship between Sullivan and Mitchell was a source of frustration and disappoint the rift that had shattered the partnership and ignited the hostility between the two reat-aunt She was also well aware that her parents had been trying to get Isabel to sell Dreamscape and e

On the fourth day of the seething rumors, Isabel sat with Elaine Harte in the Harte family kitchen

"It’s so romantic," Isabel said, blithely indifferent to Elaine’s exasperated expression "Just like Roasped