Blood Work
Chapter One
McCALEB SAW HER before she saw him. He was coming down the main dock,
past the row of millionaires' boats, when he saw the woman standing in the stern
of The Following Sea. It was half past ten on a Saturday morning and the
warm whisper of spring had brought a lot of people out to the San Pedro docks.
McCaleb was finishing the walk he took every morning-completely around Cabrillo
Marina, out along the rock jetty and back. He was huffing by this part of the
walk, but he slowed his pace even more as he approached the boat. His first
feeling was annoyance-the woman had boarded his boat uninvited. But as he got
closer, he put that aside and wondered who she was and what she wanted.
She wasn't dressed for boating. She had on a loose summer dress that came to
mid-thigh. The breeze off the water threatened to lift it and so she kept one
hand at her side to keep it down. McCaleb couldn't see her feet yet but he
guessed by the taut lines of the muscles he saw in her brown legs that she
wasn't wearing boat shoes. She had raised heels on. McCaleb's immediate read was
that she was there to make some kind of impr ... read full excerpt from Blood Work ebook
