Echoes of Home (HEART LAKE #12) by Jo Grafford EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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O L D
A N D N EW WO U N D S
July
Sheriff Gil Remington shifted impatiently from one cowboy boot to the
other, arms crossed as he waited. A wall of glass separated him from
the runway where Bliss Hawling’s plane would soon land.
It hadn’t been easy convincing her to pay another visit to their small
Texas hometown so soon after her last visit. She wouldn’t stay long. She
never did.
He blamed himself for that. More specifically, he blamed the kiss he’d
planted on her back in high school — a dare he should’ve never accepted
from his prankster football teammates. Nearly three decades later, Bliss had
yet to forgive him for it.
Over time, the awkwardness between them had transitioned to a stilted
form of politeness. As a renowned archeologist, she probably considered it
beneath her to be less than civil to him. She had too many degrees and
certifications for him to remember, and spent her time jet setting from one
important historical dig to the next. Mostly overseas. After pioneering a lab
test touted as more accurate than carbon dating, she’d become an expert at
pinpointing the age of ancient relics.
And, in some cases, their names, like the two sets of century-old human
remains she’d identified five months earlier — a married couple who’d
helped pioneer the town they’d both grown up in. They’d been dug up by
accident during a construction project on the adjacent Comanche
reservation. Both were currently resting in sealed boxes down at the Heart
Lake Medical Center’s morgue.
Here was the clincher: If a viable descendant of the mummies could be
located, that person stood to inherit a fortune. Or so some attorney with a
hundred-and-thirty-four-year-old last will and testament document up in
New York was claiming.
The moment the story went viral on the Internet, Gil had done the first
thing that came to mind. He’d picked up the phone and called Bliss. She
might still be holding a grudge against him the size of their home state, but
if there was a living heir to be found, she’d locate them. She was that good
at what she did.
Here she is.
The rumble of an aircraft sounded overhead. Gil scanned the skies until
his gaze landed on a tiny flash of silver drifting between the clouds. It
circled wide around the runway and banked right to position itself for
landing.
As it descended, his heart thumped in anticipation, probably because of
how much time he’d spent thinking about their kiss lately. His shoulders
tensed as the wheels touched down with the lightest of bumps.
It wasn’t a commercial aircraft. That detail was immediately and
glaringly obvious. It was a sleek, two-tone Gulfstream with a black nose, a
white body, and a long silver stripe running diagonally between the two.
Must be a charter flight.
It coasted to a slower speed and rolled toward the terminal with the
morning sun glinting off its glossy white paint. Instead of pulling up to the
gangway, the pilot halted the aircraft in front of the entrance that served
private flights.
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