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Sandy walked over to some controls on the kitchen wall and squinted as she looked at the to hope this turns on thethe dial

Country rock filled the air

"I think you got it," Kelsey told her

"How about some coffee?"

"You can actually sit for a few minutes?" Kelsey asked "And tell me what’s up?"

Sandy poured coffee into cups and set the The past few days around here have been tense, that’s all People are so ridiculous!"

"Okay, explain, will you?"

Sandy let out a long sigh "It’s just this haunted thing about the inn I soet involved with it, even though I like a ghost story as much as anyone Well, you know I’ve wanted this place for years I’ve always been fascinated by the history--especially what happened to Rose Langley"

"The poor girl as killed right before the fall of the Alamo?" Kelsey asked

Sandy nodded "Rose was killed by her lover--or pi on how you want to look at it--in Roo She took off from her parents’ home because she was madly in love with Taylor Grant, and when they were in Galveston, she ended up being uy naht Meyer and gained time for help, but she seeo with hiin, and Meyer wanted to fight for Texas They caot into a terrible fight, and he murdered her He’d been known to kill, so it wasn’t a surprise We wouldn’t just consider him a criminal today, we’d consider him to be as sick and perverted as the most heinous killer out there Oh--and, of course, he took off before the battle of the Ala the law could catch up with him But…"

"But?"

"I don’t kno much of this you reht the place--money down, no way out--when all of a sudden there were proble what to do about renovating a week or so before the closing, when a girl named Sierra Monte disappeared"

"Of course I re here, when the inn was in theowners," Kelsey said

"Peter Ghent, the last owner, still had the place until closing That’s hoorks I’d gotten a deal because there was no return on the down pay Ghent had some of the rooms rented, but he was like an absentee landlord Sierra caure The rooh it was a historic property, because Ghent wasn’t running it well The bar sucked! It was all falling apart and I’d just started to renovate But Sierra Monte insisted on staying Anyway, she disappeared A maid found blood everywhere and then the cops came in--but there was no body And, of course, she disappeared frorow I closed down for a bit when I took over to get the renovations finished And then I didn’t rent out the rooes people to co for 207 I’h, because I’ht and ju! It’s hard to read people over the phone or through the internet, but, like I said, I’ ol’ rodeo cowboy staying in it"

Kelsey winced "I knohat you’re saying At the Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida, people vie for the room where Anna Nicole Smith died And people book way ahead for the ‘murder room’ at the Lizzie Borden house in Fall River, Massachusetts"

"Exactly!" Sandy said "But now, the stories about Roo theh-pitched screacry of terror startled her so badly that coffee sloshed over the bri at Sandy

Sandy stared back at her, stricken, shaking her head Kelsey set her rand salon--now its lobby--looking around for the source of the screa and loud, and Kelsey raced toward it

When he reached the riverfront area and parked, Logan was still e behavior of the birds He knew that the Native American half of the faht be--would see o about it hian had been told by his captain that thiswas important In that case, he wasn’t quite sure why he was htly colored uainst the Riverwalk; it just didn’t seeed the area, along with locals The shopping included both high-end boutiques and Texas souvenir shops, and the restaurants were varied as well as plentiful He loved the river; watching water always see Still, this was unusual