Kris Reynolds adjusted her baseball cap, protecting her light brown eyes with the bill, and continued repotting a Great Basin Sage into a larger decorative pot.
She loved working with growing things—plants that would add character to any garden or household and give their new owners pleasure for years to come. It was part of the reason she'd opened Smiling Cactus Nursery, a place where she'd be sharing gardener's tips instead of survival tactics.
Though she'd served her hitch as a marine in a supposedly noncombat role, she'd seen more than her share of violence. She'd come home eager to find peace, and a healing of those wartime memories, but fate had stepped in and more tragedy had followed. Only a few days after her return, her only sister had been murdered. Death had been waiting by the roadside again just as it had been so often overseas. But there was one big difference. This time it was personal.
Thinking of Tina filled her with a familiar heaviness of spirit, a ...
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