Luke, I hope, is at least thinking about heading back to Boston College.

Louisa Rawlings is sashaying into the sunrise, Tonto at her side. I can’t help wondering how long it will last.

Me—well, I’m headed home. And Harry is beside me—right where I want him.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rose Connors, whose debut novel, Absolute Certainty, won the Mary Higgins Clark Award, grew up in Philadelphia and received her law degree from Duke University in 1984. A trial attorney for two decades, she is admitted to practice in both Washington state and Massachusetts. She lives on Cape Cod, where she spends summers commercial shellfishing with her two teenage sons. She is at work on the next Marty Nickerson novel.