“Wednesday.” He smiled. “Let’s go on Wednesday.”
“I’ll make a note. Wednesday. Paris.” She saluted and continued walking down the hall.
She had a lot of road to cover over the next twenty-four hours. Ever since Robert had decided to start up his foundation to find lost souls—as Trula had dubbed it—she’d been on edge. She couldn’t wait to get back out to the mountain roads. She knew her theory could be wrong, but until Beth and Ian turned up somewhere else—dead or alive—she would keep looking down every ravine, around every mountain curve. She wanted to be the one to find them. It meant everything to her.
Where they would go from there, she couldn’t know. All she knew on this early summer night was that if anyone was going to give him that gift, bring him the peace he was so in need of, it was going to be her.
Susanna turned on her GPS, put a Faith Hill CD in the player, and set off to resume her weekly search.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARIAH STEWART is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three novels. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with her husband and their two daughters.
ALSO BY MARIAH STEWART
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Last Words
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Dead Even
Dead Certain
Dead Wrong
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Mercy Street is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2008 by Marti Robb
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Stewart, Mariah.
Mercy Street: a novel/Mariah Stewart.
p. cm.
1. Businessmen—Fiction. 2. Rich people—Fiction. 3. Loss (Psychology)—Fiction. 4. Missing persons—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.T4653M47 2008
813'.54—dc22
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