Down Home and Deadly

That she was a ‘real sweet girl’? Tiffany might get her happy ending after all.
    “Hey, Seth. John too scared of gettin’ whupped to show up?” Alex asked.
    “Oh, didn’t you hear? Denise went into labor right after Sunday school.”
    Carly glanced at me. “Do you think we should go over to the hospital and check on her?”
    Seth shrugged. “You can if you want to, but she had the baby about an hour ago , and everything’s fine.”
    “Wow. That was fast,” I said.
    “Yeah. It’s a girl.” Tiffany winked at me. “John said that since she was so curious and impatient , he and De nise were thinking of changing their mind about what to name her.”
    Alex grinned and put his arm around my shoulders. “Let me guess . . . ”
    Seth nodded. “Yep, but then they decided Lake View only had room for one Jenna.”
    We all laughed , and Seth and Tiffany walked on over to the basketball court.
    Alex pulled me close and brushed a stray curl back from my face. “I sure am glad Lake View has you. I can’t imagine our lives if we hadn’t found each other again.”
    I stared into his blue eyes , and in that moment my whole life seemed to click into place, as if I were seeing the big picture for the very first time. Alex’ s mother’s words echoed in my head. All the disappointments and trials in my life— not winning the Olympics , losing a student, and even not buying the health club right away—had just been part of my path. But God had taken that path and us ed it to b ring me to where I stood today. In Alex’s arms.
    I couldn’t have asked for anything more.

    Sisters Christine Pearle Lynxwiler, Jan Pearle Reynolds, and Sandy Pearle Gaskin are usually on the same page. And it’s most often a page from their favorite mystery. So when the idea for a Christian cozy mystery series came up during Sunday dinner at Mama’s, they determined to take their dream further than just table talk. Thus the Sleuthing Sisters mystery series was born.

    Christine writes full-time. She and her husband, Kevin, live with their two children in the beautiful Ozark Mountains and enjoy kayaking on the nearby Spring River . Jan, part-time writer and full-time office manager, and her husband, Steve, love to spend time with their two adult children and their granddogs on the lake or just relaxing at home. Sandy, part-time writer and retired teacher, works with her husband, Bart, managing their manufacturing business. With their daughter off to college, she hopes to devote more time to writing. The three sisters love to hear from readers by e-mail at [email protected] .

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