Lake in the Clouds
Chapter One
In the spring of Elizabeth Middleton Bonner's thirty-eighth year,
when she believed herself to be settled, secure, and well beyond
adventure, Selah Voyager came to Paradise.
It was the screaming of the osprey that brought the women face to
face, just past dawn on a Sunday morning. Elizabeth and her
stepdaughter Hannah were skirting the marsh at the far end of
Half-Moon Lake when the birds started up, making so much noise
chasing each other in great diving swoops that the two of them
stopped right there to watch. Weary as she was, Elizabeth was glad
of the excuse to rest.
On the edge of New York's endless forests the winter gave way
reluctantly to warm weather, but when the osprey came back to the
lake it was a certainty that the last of the ice would soon be gone.
And there were other signs as well, all around them: a red-winged
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