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He looked around and he saw a burlap bag bulging with…

Renee’s body Dead or alive

He held still for a longhow far behind him the police cars were

Then, to his a toward Gary and Caroline

"It’s him!" Caroline shrieked "Shoot hi the knife as he pulled a gun froood

But there was no way to shoot a ghost

Caleb counted the shots, then leapt to his feet when he reached six and ain At him

He drew his oeapon as Caroline let out a shriek of pure fury and went racing toward Sarah, grabbing the knife off the ground as she ran

Caleb’s shot took Gary down He had aimed to kill

And he did

But now Caroline was on top of Sarah, knife raised Suddenly Sarah lashed out with her legs, catching Caroline in the chest

Caroline flew backward, slaht on the knife she had meant to use on Sarah

A blood sacrifice

It was days before everything began to untangle and the full truth came out The police reached the ce to hours of interrogation for Sarah and Caleb, while Renee, who this tiain consciousness for hours, made her second trip to the hospital in twenty-four hours

At the station, Jaize and then fell silent Then there was the process of trying to understand what had triggered Caroline’s insanity, even as Sarah, stunned, grieved for the loss of her best friend, a friend she now realized she had never really known

As they put the pieces together, Caroline’s MO began to eht, after Will saw her hoone back out to meet Gary It would always be impossible to know for sure, but apparently they’d started dabbling in black ic years earlier At first it had been a lark, a fun way to scare the the way they’d started to take it seriously, and their un

And while there was no way to prove it--and in fact, Sarah would never even consider trying, since she had no desire to be branded insane--Sarah suspected that maybe the insanity that drove theinal Martha Tyler’s curse How else to explain not only their actions but those of the forever unidentified killer who had irls back in the 1920s?

The house was gone over with a fine-tooth comb, and Jennie Lawson’s body was found buried beneath the stack of crates in the basement And because Caroline had been so determined to emulate Martha Tyler, she had left behind a book of her ohich her parents found in her bedroom

She and Gary had killed Frederick Russell when he had found the’s truck, then co both him and his car to the bottom of the bay

Given the DNA match, Caleb was able to claim the body of Eleanora Stewart

Will was stunned He had never suspected that Caroline had a secret life, and he seemed ready toin his misery for the foreseeable future But then Cary offered her shoulder, and Sarah didn’t think it would take long for theether

Ten days after the events in the ceinia, where they traced the grave of Cato MacTavish and saw Eleanora laid to rest next to hi, but she could have sworn she saw the two of theether

Not at the ceht

They were standing at the foot of the bed, ar s to take her into his ar that she would never see theain but that there would be others like theed closer to her, his body like a sleek spoon against her

"My love," he murmured

She closed her eyes, filled with the sense that so long as she was in his arms, she was exactly where she was supposed to be She didn’t knohat the future would hold, if they would set up housekeeping in Virginia or o somewhere else entirely, and she realized with complete serenity that it didn’t ether, and that was all that mattered