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Natalie shook her head “Nada”

She glanced over at the clock Fifteen o time

Olivia bit the inside of her cheek to keep herself fro south fast—what Sasn’t?—but this was ridiculous “Too many coincidences for me”

“Yep” Miranda nodded “I think soet a chance to train volunteers”

It would’t be the first time The Sweets hadn’t exactly been welcome in Salvation since…oh, since the town had been founded Cattle thieves Moonshiners Rabble-rousers The fauilty on all counts But Olivia and her sisters had been on the up and up since birth Well, her sisters had been Olivia had embraced the Sweet family crazy

“Who would do it?” Natalie asked

“Isn’t that the —with Mateo and his “usual” with the uptight Salvation ht at the top of it He hadn’t been shy about his opposition to the fundraiser even after he’d agreed to help Add that to the blowup last week and he made for a decent suspect

“We need to cancel” She sank down into the closest chair, wishing she could sink below the floorboards So rand plan

“Don’t cancel Postpone” Natalie grabbed her clipboard from behind the bar and hustled over to the table where Olivia sat conte her latest failure “Call it a rainout and say that you’ll reschedule the volunteer training”

As far as believable excuses went, it er shy “What makes you think anyone will show up next time?”

“Because you won’t give them a choice” Miranda sat down beside theether in teeks Iine what you could do with a couple more?”

If she could turn the fundraiser into the event of the year in Salvation, there was no way the people in town could stay away She just had to give theet anywhere else She needed to use her Sweet-inherited flair for the extre would work out

“I could call in soreat raffle prizes” Herdays had left her with a phone filled with contact inforraphers, artists and creative types in the industry “Maybe Steffano would agree to do a s”

Natalie began foriveaways on her clipboard “See, this is a good thing”

It was, but Olivia couldn’t shake the itchy feeling at the back of her neck that so more than freaky coincidence had happened to sink the fundraiser, and she was going to find out exactly what—or who—it was