Dream Country
Chapter One
At seven a.m., Daisy Tucker paused at the foot of the stairs to
smell the laundry she held in her arms. She had gotten up an hour
early to wash her daughter's clothes, throwing an extra sheet of
fabric softener into the dryer the way Sage liked it.
Mounting the stairs, Daisy wondered why her heart was pounding. She
felt nervous, as if she were applying for a new job instead of
waking up her sixteen-year-old with a pile of clean clothes. The
house was quiet, flooded with thin morning light. While waiting for
the laundry to finish, Daisy had gone to her spare-room jewelry
studio to work on a bracelet that she hoped to finish that
afternoon. But she had been too upset to concentrate.
Daisy and Sage lived alone. There had been no witnesses last night
to hear Daisy screaming like a banshee, see her pulling her own hair
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