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Sarah let hih she wanted to protest that it was her house everyone was traipsing through, and she should be the one to tell any nonessential personnel whether they could or couldn’t enter

"He’s a da," Will said

"What?" Sarah, Caroline and Renee de a pretendhim that his joke was in poor taste, then turned to Will "The irl?" she asked

Will shook his head "We were looking for her, but it was a crapshoot We don’t know exactly when she disappeared, much less where she went, we don’t know if she was killed…the bosses decided to send divers down since she’d been at a beach party when she was last seen They called me in as the dive uy did discover a subood diver"

So he’d found a body And now there were bodies in her house Did that ?

"His name is Caleb Anderson," Will supplied

"I could swear I know hi beside Ti up on the porch "I don’t think this discovery can possibly i him "This is a case for the history books--and new fodder for the ghost tours around here Intriguing, though"

Caleb Anderson reached the group standing just inside the door, then reached out and shook hands with Will, nodded at the others, then walked over to stand next to Sarah "Quite a discovery," he said to her

"Yes, not what I was expecting, certainly," she said

Carolineher hand "Hi I’m Caroline Roth I saw you at the museum earlier And these are our fellow docents, Barry Travis and Renee Otten"

"Nice toback to Sarah "You haven’t owned the house very long?" he asked her

"A few months," she said

"But she’s been in love with it forever--since ere little kids," Caroline said "She orking in the DC area and just cao to help out at the ot the opportunity to buy this place and ju if her friend was going to give hiraphy Then she wondered why it mattered It wasn’t as if her life were a secret in any way Still, for soer should have to work for his infor any of the to be easy to come by

"I see Well, it is a beautiful place--and the bones will add a nice touch of the macabre to its history--" Caleb said

"Anderson?" Ti in "This way"

"ExcuseTim to the almost-library, where the walls had been torn out

"Co and let’s head out You can stay at ht"

"Or you can stay with me," Caroline offered

Sarah shook her head "Will, you live in a studio And, Caroline, no offense, because you know I love her, but your o to Bertie Larsen’s Tropical Breeze"

Bertie owned a chariven ti in town, and the owners tended to help each other out Sometimes business in the city was the proverbial feast, and sometimes it was famine, but the owners tended to stay friends, or at least allies As a group they could advertise or petition the city for benefits like tax breaks, benefitting theether And since some places accepted pets, some accepted kids and some neither, they often passed on a couest’s criteria

Bertie wasn’t just a fellow businesswoiven Sarah lots of advice Best of all, her inn had a number of rooms with private entrances, and Sarah was in the ers that a room with a private entrance would be available