CHAPTER 1 THE PHONE RANG. Ross Murdock looked up, startled.
For a moment his eyes met his wife’s across the room. Eveleen paused in the act of patting down the folded tablecloth on the basket they’d both just finished packing.
Strange, to hear a phone ring. It’d been days since they’d been so rudely interrupted—long, glorious autumn days there at Safeharbor, on the coast of Maine. No phone, no TV, no newspapers—nothing but seabirds, and the sound of the breakers crashing on the rocks down the hill from the house, and each other. Heaven.
“Let’s ignore it,” Ross said.
Eveleen shook her head. “This isn’t our house, it’s Gordon’s, and it might be someone who needs to get in touch with him.”
“Who?” Ross asked as the phone rang a second time.
Eveleen’s expressive brown eyes glanced at him, rounded with amused patience. “Friends? Family?”
“Outside of the Project, he doesn’t have any friends,” Ross said, half joking. “And I don’t think there’s any family either. The P ...
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