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"Is it with you?"

"No," she answered, "sad to say it’s notout with Olivia Gordon Aaron likes to start people out with Liv--and in sroups She’s our most popular therapist You’ll see why Hey, Drew, boys, how are you all doing?"

Sean laughed softly "You’re great, too, Mariah"

Mariah grinned good-naturedly at that "I’eous, huh?"

"You’re just fine," Matt said fervently "We all--"

"Don’t worry about it, Matt" Mariah laughed "It’s true that Liv has an exceptional gift with aniood for people to learn with her first Now me, I’m the historian! My family’s been here forever We’ve lived here since the first frontiersman headed out to this part of Tennessee In fact, I do tours every second Friday night and I lead these guys and a bunch of others on ca us"

"I’m sure I will I’m a history buff, too"

"Yeah?" Mariah asked "Then you should spend soroup," she said proudly "They’ve even done reenacted, looking slightly embarrassed "I enjoy it I particularly like the research end of it"

"Drew is great athistory fun," Sean said

"Mariah does haunted history," Matt put in "She’s got lots of ghost stories to tell"

"It all sounds good," Dustin said "I’ll look forward to it"

"Glad you like the idea," Drew remarked "But just to prepare you for tomorrow With any kind of therapy, you have to be open to it Although, honestly, half the time people aren’t And those people don’t do ith the horses Can’t blaet you, right?" he asked, s there in psych group waiting for sos at the rock, though That’s fun"

"Werock," Mariah explained "Helps let out steaer, resent day Nice to , he left the diner He knew they’d be talking about hi to the bed-and-breakfast, he realized he wason--and he realized, too, that he’d have to be very careful

A hell of a lot of talking went on in this area

Olivia sat on the couch in her parlor, an untouched cup of tea in her hands, while Marcus Danby was in the chair across from her He looked as if he were alive He wasn’t, of course, but he was there--almost in the flesh He appeared to move, to walk, to talk, to be her friend as he’d been in life

Except, of course, that he was upset With her?

She shouldn’t be so frozen, she told herself She’d seen ghosts before, hosts before! For God’s sake, her cousin, Malachi, lived with a great old fellow, a Revolutionary War ghost

And she’d seen the general on the Tennessee hills ift, soht those who claimed to have it were flat-out crazy Therefore, e to pretend that aswasn’t And when you knew that ghosts could make you appear crazy or even feel like you were crazy, you learned how to cope

Malachi had kept her sane when they were kids He’d convinced her that it had to be a secret they shared And, of course, she sohosts themselves They stayed behind for a reason It was best to know that reason beforefriends

She remembered one tiraduation He’d talked to her once they had some time alone, and she’d sh