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Sean passed Katie near the doorway "Hey, sis," he said, kissed her cheek, and kept on going

They’d all just survived near death They had dealt with total insanity

He would have to be insane hiain

"Mr O’Hara!"

She had followed hi out, and now she stood on the sidewalk, staring after him

Despite hih "I never meant to play anyone," she said "I’m just desperate for help You don’t understand," she said

"I think I do," he told her

"No, no, you don’t I have reason to believe that someone must find out what happened, not just for those ere killed, but…"

"But what?"

"Other things have happened Bad things Not involved with fil, but with other boaters who disappeared near Haunt Island"

"The sea can be huge and hout history, many a boat and ship have disappeared without a trace"

"There’s more to it I know there’s more to it, and I’m afraid"

"Afraid of what?"

"I’m afraid that if the truth isn’t discovered, more people will die That there will be blood and death…a ain, and maybe this time, here, in Key West"

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Vanessa walked back into O’Hara’s, trying to feel as if she hadn’t just been crushed in ato her uncle She watched Vanessa as she came up and took the stool next to her Vanessa had known Katie forever, or so it seeroup of Key West students up to dive the springs and Vanessa’s school had been hosting the week of ca ten and wary of kids who came from cool places like Key West But she’d been paired with Katie, who had an exceptional voice, for the talent show, and Vanessa had been her harrand prize--t regulators for their scuba equipun the friendship Of course, they’d been kids living almost four hundred miles away from one another even if it was the sa one another at their respective colleges andwhenever they could

By the tiether in Key West, or anywhere in the Keys, Sean had been gone e that she’d never had a chance to meet him before

It seemed odd that the O’Haras could so clearly resemble one another and yet look so different When she’d asked Jamie O’Hara what Sean looked like, he told her that Katie was Sean in a dress That wasn’t true at all Sean was very tall, three or four inches over six feet, with a linebacker’s shoulders Katie was slihter, though with the sareen while Sean’s were olden color He had almost classic features, just like Katie, but he looked like a man who had braved the wind many a time, and his jaw leaned toward the square side

Maybe that had just been because he’d been talking to her--and she sensed that she’d irritated him

"Maybe I should have mentioned first that I knew you both," Vanessa said dryly to Katie

Katie smiled and swirled a stirrer in her coffee cup "Ha-ha Perhaps he’s feeling as if we’re ganging up on hiet over it Really, I think the lure of the et to him, once he thinks it all out I think" She looked at Vanessa with concern "But…are you sure you should be doing this? Maybe you should just leave it all alone"

"You know I can’t do that--you know you couldn’t do that! Hey, I’ve talked to people around here You plunged headfirst into finding out what had happened in David’s past, a pretty dangerous occupation, so I heard," Vanessa said