Secrets Of The Rose. Lois Richer

were friends. Once. But things change. The person who stole your daughter had personal knowledge of things an ordinary thief wouldn’t know. He left nothing to chance, not even his footprints in the garden. Either he or someone helping him knew the freshly worked ground would imprint and was prepared to cover those tracks.”

      “And you believe that person was Daniel?”

      “I do not say exactly that. I say merely that you must be wary of whom you trust. I will keep digging, but you must be alert. These are people who wish you harm, Shelby. Be very careful.”

      While she stared after him, Russ walked out of the room, leaving her door ajar. A moment later she heard the elevator doors whoosh close.

      She stood alone in her office, staring out the windows into the blackness while the sounds around her magnified a thousandfold.

      The words of the Psalm she’d repeated over and over in the wee hours of the morning now echoed through her mind. She couldn’t remember all of it, but one line sang through, sharper, more poignant than the rest.

      “May He grant your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans.”

      Her heart’s desire was known to Him. He alone could help Aimee now.