Seventh Heaven
Chapter OneMonday, July 17
Laurel Creek, Oregon
It had been nearly a year since Marilee Nelson's last panic attack, and she honestly believed she'd never have another one.
Until she saw the football helmet.
As football helmets went, it was ordinary enough, gray and striped with crimson, the team colors of Laurel Creek High, her alma mater. Nothing very frightening about that. No, what struck terror into her was that the helmet lay in the back window of an unknown blue Honda with California plates that was parked in front of her garage.
That was enough to send Marilee straight past panic into full-blown hysteria.
After her car had rocked to a stop, she cut the engine and stared at that California plate until her eyes burned. JOE, it read. A very ordinary name. It was undoubtedly pure coincidence that some guy named Joe from California had parked his vehicle in her driveway. A kid working his way through college by selling magazine subscriptions, maybe. Or a census taker who'd wandered into the wrong state.
She might have convinced herself, only there was that helmet. Only on ... read full excerpt from: Seventh Heaven ebook
